{"id":8225,"date":"2015-04-09T12:57:23","date_gmt":"2015-04-09T16:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=8225"},"modified":"2024-09-11T21:13:27","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T01:13:27","slug":"cartoon-captures-journalists-hard-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/cartoon-captures-journalists-hard-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Cartoon Captures Journalists&#8217; Hard Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u00a0 has been too long since I wrote about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2013\/apr\/29\/we-deliver-not\/\">Postal Service<\/a> and their <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2011\/dec\/16\/opinion\/la-oe-bovard-postoffice-20111216\">durn monopoly<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, there is the Code of Honor &#8211; as captured by the iconic title of the\u00a01979\u00a0book on the Washington\u00a0press corps &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Drunk-Before-Noon-Behind-The-Scenes-Washington\/dp\/013220830X\">Drunk Before Noon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For better or worse,\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never been inclined to start the day with a <a href=\"http:\/\/flyingdogbrewery.com\/?beers=raging-bitch\">Raging Bitch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Maybe it\u00a0 has been too long since I wrote about the Postal Service and their durn monopoly. On the other hand, there is the Code of Honor &#8211; as captured by the iconic title of the\u00a01979\u00a0book on the Washington\u00a0press corps &#8211; Drunk Before Noon. For better or worse,\u00a0 I&#8217;ve never been inclined to start [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[104,56,582,208,583],"class_list":["post-8225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-beer","tag-cartoon","tag-journalists","tag-postal-service","tag-washington-press-corps"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Cartoon Captures Journalists&#039; Hard Life - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"cartoon on short workday for journalists\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/09\/cartoon-captures-journalists-hard-life\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cartoon Captures Journalists&#039; 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