{"id":11587,"date":"2010-11-01T18:31:38","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T01:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slowpokecomics.com\/blog\/?p=255"},"modified":"2010-11-01T18:31:38","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T01:31:38","slug":"farewell-honorable-namesake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11587","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, Honorable Namesake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened yesterday when I learned that JFK&#8217;s right-hand man Ted Sorensen had died. We were not related &#8212; although I did have a pleasant email exchange with his grandson (or grandnephew?) once. I always thought maybe I&#8217;d get to meet Ted someday, and we could rap about our shared Sorensen-ness. Alas, it&#8217;s too late. But I did get a kick out of this quote in his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/01\/us\/01sorensen.html\" >NYT obituary<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Sorensen once said he suspected that the headline on his obituary would read \u201cTheodore Sorenson, Kennedy Speechwriter,\u201d misspelling his  name and misjudging his work&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently not even Ted could escape the dreaded &#8220;-son&#8221; misspelling. Speaking for myself, it has caused countless problems with appointments and reservations. I&#8217;m actually surprised when anyone gets it right. But I digress. Here&#8217;s to Theodore Sorensen, one of history&#8217;s better figures to have shared a name with. (Apologies to all you Nixons out there!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was saddened yesterday when I learned that JFK&#8217;s right-hand man Ted Sorensen had died. We were not related &#8212; although I did have a pleasant email exchange with his grandson (or grandnephew?) once. I always thought maybe I&#8217;d get to meet Ted someday, and we could rap about our shared Sorensen-ness. Alas, it&#8217;s too [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=11587\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[128],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated-feeds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}