{"id":1143,"date":"2008-09-21T09:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T16:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/09\/21\/i-miss-aaron-sorkin\/"},"modified":"2008-09-21T09:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-21T16:24:00","slug":"i-miss-aaron-sorkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/09\/21\/i-miss-aaron-sorkin\/","title":{"rendered":"I Miss Aaron Sorkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But at least we still have Sorkin parodies, like this <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">West Wing<\/span> homage from Maureen Dowd:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>OBAMA I appreciate your sense of humor, sir, but I really could use your advice.<\/p>\n<p>BARTLET Well, it seems to me your problem is a lot like the problem I had twice.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA Which was?<\/p>\n<p>BARTLET A huge number of Americans thought I thought I was superior to them.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA And?<\/p>\n<p>BARTLET I was.<\/p>\n<p>OBAMA I mean, how did you overcome that?<\/p>\n<p>BARTLET I won\u2019t lie to you, being fictional was a big advantage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/09\/21\/opinion\/21dowd-sorkin.html?ei=5124&amp;en=84404f7db61bc431&amp;ex=1379649600&amp;partner=facebook&amp;exprod=facebook&amp;pagewanted=print\">&#8220;Seeking a President Who Gives Goose Bumps? So\u2019s Obama,&#8221;<\/a> <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">New York Times<\/span>, September 21, 2008<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Thanks to my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snout.org\/hotsheet\/2007\/11\/speechless.html\">Mike<\/a> for the link.)<\/p>\n<p>~CKL<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But at least we still have Sorkin parodies, like this West Wing homage from Maureen Dowd: OBAMA I appreciate your sense of humor, sir, but I really could use your advice. BARTLET Well, it seems to me your problem is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[25,56,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-tv","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}