{"id":2237,"date":"2010-08-08T22:34:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T02:34:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2237"},"modified":"2010-08-08T22:35:14","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T02:35:14","slug":"im-a-character-in-todays-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2237","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m a &#8220;Character&#8221; in Today&#8217;s NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My friend (and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0533666\/\" target=\"_blank\">screenwriter<\/a>) Angus MacLachlan has a short article in the &#8220;Lives&#8221; section of today&#8217;s <em>New York Times<\/em>. It&#8217;s a true story that takes place in our neighborhood (Angus lives around the corner from me) and the pictured chair lived in my studio for about a year between the events detailed in the story, although it was green then and smelled vaguely of dog pee.<\/p>\n<p>Angus had sent me an early draft of this story in which he&#8217;d changed my name to &#8220;Dan Toole.&#8221;\u00a0 I requested a rewrite with that altered it to &#8220;Dr. Magnus R. Steele&#8221; but apparently the <em>Times<\/em> requires writers to use real names for this feature, so it&#8217;s back to &#8220;Ben Towle&#8221; here.\u00a0 They even had a fact checker call apparently. (This fact check guy must have been on a smoke break during the buildup to the Iraq War.\u00a0 [Zing!!!]) Anyway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/08\/08\/magazine\/08lives-t.html?_r=1&amp;emc=eta1\" target=\"_blank\">here&#8217;s the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/08\/08lives-t_CA0-articleInline.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"08lives-t_CA0-articleInline\" src=\"http:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/uploads\/2010\/08\/08lives-t_CA0-articleInline.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"213\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend (and screenwriter) Angus MacLachlan has a short article in the &#8220;Lives&#8221; section of today&#8217;s New York Times. It&#8217;s a true story that takes place in our neighborhood (Angus lives around the corner from me) and the pictured chair lived in my studio for about a year between the events detailed in the story, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/?p=2237\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46veT-A5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benzilla.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}