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The NYTimes tries to discuss the phenomenon of Page Six<\/a>. They don’t do a very good job, but it’s better than the Times’ half-assed attempt at its own gossip column<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The NYTimes tries to discuss the phenomenon of Page Six. They don’t do a very good job, but it’s better than the Times’ half-assed attempt at its own gossip column.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-eM","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1915,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/good-night-sweet-curator-of-webster-hall","url_meta":{"origin":916,"position":0},"title":"Good night, sweet Curator of Webster Hall","author":"Gil","date":"February 23, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Almost 10 years ago, when my micropress published its first book, we had a launch party at Webster Hall in NYC. 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