{"id":47,"date":"2006-11-21T23:59:25","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T23:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/?p=47"},"modified":"2006-11-21T23:59:25","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T23:59:25","slug":"comings-and-goings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/comings-and-goings\/","title":{"rendered":"Comings and goings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000265\/\">Robert Altman<\/a>, director of some of my favorite movies (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0105151\/\">The Player<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0280707\/\">Gosford Park<\/a>), has died. He was 81.<\/p>\n<p>For a while in the previous century I kept a memorable quotes collection on my computer &#8212; things that struck me as profound or funny, mostly. One of them was an exchange between Altman and an interviewer from <i>Newsweek<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHave you ever worked for a mogul whom you felt was a force for good?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUmmm, I don\u2019t recall.  There might be a benevolent despot or two, but their names don\u2019t fall trippingly off the tongue.  No, the best guy I\u2019ve ever worked for is me.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Rest in peace, you maverick, you.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, some people are busy getting born. One of them is my niece, Katelyn Leigh Dawley, who arrived on November 11th. Welcome, mini human! It may seem crazy now, but don&#8217;t worry, you&#8217;ll get the hang of it.<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/media\/1\/20061121-hugh_katelyn.jpg' width='446'  height='354'  alt='Hugh and Katelyn'  \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned that Robert Altman, director of some of my favorite movies (The Player, Gosford Park), has died. He was 81. For a while in the previous century I kept a memorable quotes collection on my computer &#8212; things that struck me as profound or funny, mostly. One of them was an exchange between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therem.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}