{"id":1745,"date":"2006-11-06T10:45:50","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T18:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/carter_is_to_spy_as_irving_is_to_salmagundi.html"},"modified":"2006-11-06T10:45:50","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T18:45:50","slug":"carter_is_to_sp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/carter_is_to_sp.html","title":{"rendered":"Carter Is To Spy As Irving Is To Salmagundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Letters recently unearthed reveal that <a href=\"http:\/\/ny.metro.us\/metro\/local\/article\/The_Spy_who_mocked_us\/5550.html\">Graydon Carter was always a douche<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In a 1985 letter to [Spy co-creator Kurt] Andersen, Carter envisioned a city magazine that would &#8220;investigate the great commercial machines that fuel the city, the behind the scenes stories in art, literature, journalism, broadcasting, theater, fashion, banking, business, show business and the law. . . . A hundred years from now, the graduate student sifting through the racks at the New-York Historical Society will, with relish, throw himself upon old copies of Spy to get a feeling for what it was to be young and smart and living in New York in the eighties.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I think I just reconsidered my desire to revisit the Wilt Chamberlain 20,000 women number crunching . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Letters recently unearthed reveal that Graydon Carter was always a douche: In a 1985 letter to [Spy co-creator Kurt] Andersen, Carter envisioned a city magazine that would &#8220;investigate the great commercial machines that fuel the city, the behind the scenes stories in art, literature, journalism, broadcasting, theater, fashion, banking, business, show business and the law. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-please_make_it_stop","category-sliding_into_the_abyss_of_elitism_pretentiousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}