{"id":1139,"date":"2011-11-01T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2011-11-01T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sandiegotroubadour.com\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2012-04-17T09:19:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-17T16:19:00","slug":"viva-troubadour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandiegotroubadour.com\/viva-troubadour\/","title":{"rendered":"Viva Troubadour!"},"content":{"rendered":"

There was an article about the Troubadour<\/em> in the Union-Tribune<\/em> last month. I loved it. It\u2019s about time this rag got its props!<\/p>\n

The Troubadour<\/em> has matured in the decade since its inception. Today, if I were to see a copy at my dentist\u2019s office, I\u2019d reach for the Troubadour before I would any of the other offerings (like Modern Orthodontics<\/em> or the LARGE PRINT Reader\u2019s Digest<\/em>.)<\/p>\n

The first thing I read when I get a copy of a new issue of the Troubadour<\/em> is my own column, \u201cRadio Daze,\u201d to see what the hell I wrote. Unlike some writers with their new-fangled word processing doodads, I write my columns by hand, on my other hand! I wash my hands only after mailing editor Liz Abbott a Polaroid of the hand I wrote the article on. Imagine what I have to go through if I want to change a word. That probably seems quaint and time-consuming, but it\u2019s the way I learned to write.<\/p>\n

Now, back to the U-T<\/em> article\u2026<\/p>\n

I was especially surprised by Liz\u2019s comment, \u201cWe pay our writers\u2026\u201d Really? I guess the beers I have at the annual holiday party comprise my pay (and the ten copies of each issue I take from in front of the Ken Cinema!)<\/p>\n

Seriously, though, I don\u2019t write this column for money, I write it because, in a momentary lapse of reason eight years ago, I claimed to be a writer!<\/p>\n

Etcetera.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Congratulations to my brother, Rick, on his 11\/11\/11 marriage to the lovely Laurie. (Personal: Rick, I would have flown to Chicago for the wedding, but my Troubadour paycheck wouldn\u2019t even pay for the call to an airline reservation agent.)<\/p>\n

In December\u2019s column, I will give you my annual look back at the year almost finished, using my predictions from last January\u2019s Troubadour<\/em> as my guide.<\/p>\n

Tell your friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There was an article about the Troubadour in the Union-Tribune last month. I loved it. It\u2019s about time this rag got its props! The Troubadour has matured in the decade since its inception. Today, if I were to see a copy at my dentist\u2019s office, I\u2019d reach for the Troubadour before I would any of the other offerings (like Modern Orthodontics or the LARGE PRINT Reader\u2019s Digest.) The first thing I read when I get a copy of a new issue of the Troubadour is my own column, \u201cRadio Daze,\u201d to see what the hell I wrote. Unlike some writers with their new-fangled word processing doodads, I write my columns by hand, on my other hand! I wash my hands only after mailing editor Liz Abbott a Polaroid of the hand I wrote the article on. Imagine what I have to go through if I want to change a word. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-radio-daze"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiegotroubadour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiegotroubadour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiegotroubadour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiegotroubadour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiegotroubadour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/sandiegotroubadour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2517,"href":"https:\/\/sandiegotroubadour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/2517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandiegotroubadour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiegotroubadour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandiegotroubadour.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}