{"id":196834,"date":"2008-03-20T17:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-20T22:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/20\/gene-kelleys-widow-calls-out-modo\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-20T22:07:00","slug":"gene-kelleys-widow-calls-out-modo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/20\/gene-kelleys-widow-calls-out-modo\/","title":{"rendered":"Gene Kelley&#8217;s Widow Calls Out MoDo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There is really not much that I can add to this:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/03\/19\/opinion\/l19dowd.html?ref=opinion\">I Knew Gene Kelly. The President Is No Gene Kelly. &#8211; New York Times<\/a><br \/>Re \u201cSoft Shoe in Hard Times\u201d (column, March 16):<\/p>\n<p>Surely it must have been a slip for Maureen Dowd to align the artistry of my late husband, Gene Kelly, with the president\u2019s clumsy performances. To suggest that \u201cGeorge Bush has turned into Gene Kelly\u201d represents not only an implausible transformation but a considerable slight. If Gene were in a grave, he would have turned over in it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Patricia Ward Kelly<br \/>Los Angeles, March 16, 2008<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is really not much that I can add to this: I Knew Gene Kelly. The President Is No Gene Kelly. &#8211; New York TimesRe \u201cSoft Shoe in Hard Times\u201d (column, March 16): Surely it must have been a slip for Maureen Dowd to align the artistry of my late husband, Gene Kelly, with the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1167,978],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196834"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}