{"id":58,"date":"2003-09-03T12:49:34","date_gmt":"2003-09-03T12:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.95.25.178\/maggie\/2003\/09\/03\/but_its_not_about_the_money\/"},"modified":"2003-09-03T12:49:34","modified_gmt":"2003-09-03T12:49:34","slug":"but_its_not_about_the_money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2003\/09\/03\/but_its_not_about_the_money\/","title":{"rendered":"But it&#8217;s not about the money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Private Jessica Lynch, now honorably discharged for medical reasons, has signed a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&amp;storyID=3373978\">book deal<\/a>. For one million dollars, she will tell us all about growing up in America &#8211; for this, it seems, is the premise of the book, not her Iraqi adventures.<\/p>\n<p>The book is to be titled <em>I am a Soldier, Too<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Is that in the sense of &#8220;I may be a photogenic blonde willing to compromise the truth for a photo op and a good story, but I&#8217;m a soldier, too?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, she&#8217;s not a writer, too &#8211; the book will be co-written with Rick Bragg. Bragg is the Pulitzer-winning journalist who resigned from the NY Times last spring &#8220;after the newspaper suspended him over a story that carried his byline but was reported largely by a freelancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>None of the articles I&#8217;ve seen disclose who will be on the committee to review the book for conformity to the official version of events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Private Jessica Lynch, now honorably discharged for medical reasons, has signed a book deal. For one million dollars, she will tell us all about growing up in America &#8211; for this, it seems, is the premise of the book, not her Iraqi adventures. The book is to be titled I am a Soldier, Too. Is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/2003\/09\/03\/but_its_not_about_the_money\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;But it&#8217;s not about the money&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.golding.ca\/maggie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}