{"id":3019,"date":"2011-11-26T10:47:27","date_gmt":"2011-11-26T10:47:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3019"},"modified":"2025-09-28T22:11:41","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T22:11:41","slug":"tom-wicker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=3019","title":{"rendered":"Tom Wicker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Times columnist. He wrote on their op ed page until 1991.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/11\/26\/us\/tom-wicker-journalist-and-author-dies-at-85.html?_r=1&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;emc=tha24\" target=\"_self\">Tom Wicker, Journalist and Observer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He was a liberal with a capital <strong>L. <\/strong>A great writer, who stated his positions rationally and with&#0160;fairness, especially &#0160;compared to the dodos the Times has had since then (Collins, Rich, Herbert, Brooks, et al).<\/p>\n<p>In 1990, just before he retired, I wrote him a letter questioning his pro-choice\/pro-abortion position. He sent me a nice note back.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I wish he hadn&#39;t retired and had kept going, even if only with a weekly column.<\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The NY Times columnist. He wrote on their op ed page until 1991. Tom Wicker, Journalist and Observer He was a liberal with a capital L. A great writer, who stated his positions rationally and with&#0160;fairness, especially &#0160;compared to the dodos the Times has had since then (Collins, Rich, Herbert, Brooks, et al). In 1990, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8663,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3019\/revisions\/8663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}