{"id":217,"date":"2007-08-31T07:15:45","date_gmt":"2007-08-31T12:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weeklyrob.dreamhosters.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2007-08-31T07:15:45","modified_gmt":"2007-08-31T12:15:45","slug":"oprah-cant-edit-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Oprah Can&#039;t Edit Me!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shout it from the rooftops. Oprah cannot cannot cannot edit me.<\/p>\n<p>Oprah has no idea who I am, but I decided to join in solidarity with Chris Rose, whose new book isn&#8217;t supposed to be very good and will not be seen on Oprah.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nola.com\/living\/t-p\/index.ssf?\/base\/living-8\/1188367892232970.xml&#038;coll=1&#038;thispage=1\">Read the article<\/a>, which is funny and clever.<\/p>\n<p>In short, Oprah interviewed him (but not about his book), then said they&#8217;d kill the interview unless he signed an agreement not to write about the process. He said, more or less, go to hell. Which, of course, is awesome.<\/p>\n<p>I do wonder whether he&#8217;d have said that if the interview was about his book. At that point, killing the story would have cost him tons of cash. But since they didn&#8217;t talk about it, what does he care?<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, after all that (but you really do have to read the article), his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.oprah.com\/tows\/booksseen\/200708\/tows_book_20070829_crose.jhtml\">made the cut<\/a> anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com\/\">Freakonimics blog<\/a> for the original link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shout it from the rooftops. Oprah cannot cannot cannot edit me. Oprah has no idea who I am, but I decided to join in solidarity with Chris Rose, whose new book isn&#8217;t supposed to be very good and will not be seen on Oprah. Read the article, which is funny and clever. In short, Oprah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","category-famous-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}