{"id":5296,"date":"2009-08-23T10:49:07","date_gmt":"2009-08-23T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=5296"},"modified":"2009-08-23T10:49:07","modified_gmt":"2009-08-23T15:49:07","slug":"1300_women_in_connecticut_cant_be_wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/08\/1300_women_in_connecticut_cant_be_wrong.html","title":{"rendered":"1300 Women In Connecticut Can&#8217;t Be Wrong!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buried in the reaction to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/08\/red-state_revolution_suddenly_back_in_gear.html\">Cintra Wilson&#8217;s gratuitously obnoxious Critical Shopper piece about J.C. Penney<\/a> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/23\/opinion\/23pubed.html\">today&#8217;s Public Editor column<\/a> is this admission exposing the Thursday Styles section for the sleazy high-end advertising vehicle that it is:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Wilson told me she usually writes about &#8220;obscure stores that don&#8217;t exist outside of Manhattan,&#8221; and she thinks of her audience as &#8220;1,300 women in Connecticut and urban gay guys in Manhattan.&#8221; She said it was &#8220;kind of provincial of me&#8221; not to realize how big The Times was and how her audience would expand when she reviewed a store like Penney&#8217;s. She said she also thought she hit a raw nerve with people already disposed to think of The Times as disconnected and unsympathetic. &#8220;It was dumb on my part not to see this coming,&#8221; she said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But give bonus points to Wilson for ripping on Connecticut ladies in the process . . .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buried in the reaction to Cintra Wilson&#8217;s gratuitously obnoxious Critical Shopper piece about J.C. Penney in today&#8217;s Public Editor column is this admission exposing the Thursday Styles section for the sleazy high-end advertising vehicle that it is: Wilson told me she usually writes about &#8220;obscure stores that don&#8217;t exist outside of Manhattan,&#8221; and she thinks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-see_the_thing_is_was","category-sliding_into_the_abyss_of_elitism_pretentiousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296","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=5296"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5297,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5296\/revisions\/5297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}