{"id":1626,"date":"2009-09-28T06:41:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-28T12:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2009-09-28T06:49:39","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T12:49:39","slug":"rip-william-safire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1626","title":{"rendered":"RIP William Safire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/09\/28\/us\/28safire.html?ref=us\">William Safire<\/a>, former conservative columnist for the New York Times, has died.&nbsp; From the obituary:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>from 1973 to 2005, Mr. Safire wrote his twice-weekly &ldquo;Essay&rdquo; for the Op-Ed page of The Times, a forceful conservative voice in the liberal chorus. Unlike most Washington columnists who offer judgments with Olympian detachment, Mr. Safire was a pugnacious contrarian who did much of his own reporting, called people liars in print and laced his opinions with outrageous wordplay.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#39;ll always remember him for his column on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/31525\">language<\/a>.&nbsp; May he rest in peace. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Safire, former conservative columnist for the New York Times, has died.&nbsp; From the obituary: from 1973 to 2005, Mr. Safire wrote his twice-weekly &ldquo;Essay&rdquo; for the Op-Ed page of The Times, a forceful conservative voice in the liberal chorus. Unlike most Washington columnists who offer judgments with Olympian detachment, Mr. Safire was a pugnacious &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/?p=1626\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RIP William Safire<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-safire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenonsequitur.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}