{"id":2397,"date":"2013-01-14T09:29:37","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T14:29:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2013-01-14T09:29:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T14:29:37","slug":"francis-wheen-the-lady-and-the-vamp-vanity-fair-october-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/francis-wheen-the-lady-and-the-vamp-vanity-fair-october-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Francis Wheen, &#8220;The Lady and the Vamp,&#8221; Vanity Fair, October 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2012\/10\/english-magazine-the-lady-revival\/_jcr_content\/par\/cn_contentwell\/par-main\/cn_pagination_contai\/cn_image.size.the-lady-and-the-vamp.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"445\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: VanityFair.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is an amusing article on the acrimony that breaks out when a new editor arrives at the staid, 127-year old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lady.co.uk\/\">The Lady<\/a> magazine. Anglophiles will particularly enjoy it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The redoubtable Mrs. B., clad in twinset and pearls, was a magnet for quote-hungry reporters. \u201cIt suited the impression that this was just a Wodehouse novel in real life,\u201d says Ben Budworth, \u201cto portray Mum as Aunt Agatha up in Suffolk shouting about Rachel.\u201d Serving tea to reporters in her drawing room, she needed no encouragement to resume shouting. \u201cWhy oh why must Rachel bring willies into everything?\u201d she demanded after hearing a BBC program in which Johnson denounced Britain\u2019s Trident nuclear-\u00admissile system as \u201ca willy-waving anachronism,\u201d&#8230;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2012\/10\/english-magazine-the-lady-revival\">http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2012\/10\/english-magazine-the-lady-revival<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an amusing article on the acrimony that breaks out when a new editor arrives at the staid, 127-year old The Lady magazine. Anglophiles will particularly enjoy it. The redoubtable Mrs. B., clad in twinset and pearls, was a magnet for quote-hungry reporters. \u201cIt suited the impression that this was just a Wodehouse novel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[159,125],"tags":[148],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guilty-read","category-media","tag-vanity-fair"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pBCzY-CF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2398,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions\/2398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kevinrkosar.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}