{"id":1834,"date":"2007-02-01T14:03:33","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T22:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/02\/01\/oh-molly\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:41:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:41:22","slug":"oh-molly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2007\/02\/01\/oh-molly\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Molly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/02\/01\/washington\/01ivins.html?_r=1&#038;ref=media&#038;oref=slogin\">Molly Ivins<\/a> has died. I admired her spark and wit, her astute political commentary delivered with a Texas twang. In January 1994 I read her first book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Molly-Ivins-Cant-Say-That\/dp\/0679741836\/sr=8-1\/qid=1170366879\/ref=sr_1_1\/103-0738760-5915008?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books\">Molly Ivins Can&#8217;t Say That, Can She?<\/a>; it was so funny there were laugh-out-loud moments, and it was this book that inspired me to consider moving from Syracuse, New York to Austin, Texas later that year.<\/p>\n<p>Farewell, Ms. Ivins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Molly Ivins has died. I admired her spark and wit, her astute political commentary delivered with a Texas twang. In January 1994 I read her first book, Molly Ivins Can&#8217;t Say That, Can She?; it was so funny there were laugh-out-loud moments, and it was this book that inspired me to consider moving from Syracuse, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-regional","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11223,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/11223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}