{"id":1767,"date":"2006-11-13T09:06:57","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T17:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/11\/pun-nable_headline_check_quirky_topic_check_new_york_institution_check_front_page_metro.html"},"modified":"2008-01-24T15:41:09","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T20:41:09","slug":"punnable_headli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/11\/punnable_headli.html","title":{"rendered":"Pun-nable Headline? Check. Quirky Topic? Check. New York Institution? Check. (Front Page Metro!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At least <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/11\/nyregion\/11pickles.html?ex=1320901200&#038;en=2a22761019240601&#038;ei=5090&#038;partner=rssuserland&#038;emc=rss\">headline writers refrained from using variations of &#8220;in a pickle&#8221; or some such<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Mr. Leibowitz, who declined to be interviewed, fired the opening salvo of what fast became a nasty pickle war in February, when he sent a letter to Ms. Fairhurst, ordering her to stop using the Guss&#8217;s Pickles name. Ms. Fairhurst responded with a lawsuit filed in October, claiming she had ownership rights.<\/p>\n<p>Not only has the lawsuit pitted pickler against pickler, it has also thrown into question the future of a Lower East Side institution as revered as Russ &#038; Daughters food store and Katz&#8217;s Delicatessen. It has torn historic pickle alliances asunder. And it has devastated the surviving daughters of Izzy Guss, the original storied pickler supposedly known as the &#8220;Botticelli of Brine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After my father passed away, what we sold was our name. That name was gold,&#8221; said Marilyn Guss Altman. &#8220;To think that all of this stuff is going on is breaking my heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Who owns the name now? Now that is a real pickle.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Agh! It slipped in there anyway!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least headline writers refrained from using variations of &#8220;in a pickle&#8221; or some such: Mr. Leibowitz, who declined to be interviewed, fired the opening salvo of what fast became a nasty pickle war in February, when he sent a letter to Ms. Fairhurst, ordering her to stop using the Guss&#8217;s Pickles name. Ms. Fairhurst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","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=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}