{"id":2858,"date":"2013-08-19T14:11:14","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T18:11:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/?p=2858"},"modified":"2013-08-19T14:11:14","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T18:11:14","slug":"hizzoner-a-fan-of-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/2013\/08\/19\/hizzoner-a-fan-of-bronze\/","title":{"rendered":"Hizzoner, a fan of bronze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While leafing through the February 2013 issue of <em>Vanity Fair<\/em><a href=\"#vanityfair\">*<\/a> over the weekend, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/m.vanityfair.com\/culture\/2013\/02\/ed-koch-proust-questionnaire\" target=\"_blank\">The Proust Questionaire<\/a>,&#8221; a regular feature of the magazine, caught my eye. The subject was <strong>Ed Koch<\/strong>, former mayor of New York City&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Who is your favorite hero of fiction?<\/strong><br \/>\nDoc Savage, man of bronze, who was very popular during my adolescent years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s too bad that Koch died shortly after this issue was published. It would have been interesting to hear more about his pulp experiences.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"vanityfair\" name=\"vanityfair\"><span class=\"agate\">* <em>Vanity Fair<\/em> was originally published from around 1913 through 1936 by Cond\u00e9 Nast, which bought <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/PulpWiki\/StreetandSmith\"><span class=\"agate\">Street &#038; Smith Publications<\/span><\/a><span class=\"agate\">, the publisher of <\/span><em><a href=\"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/the-links\/docsavage\/\" class=\"agate\">Doc Savage<\/a><\/em><span class=\"agate\">, in 1959.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While leafing through the February 2013 issue of Vanity Fair* over the weekend, &#8220;The Proust Questionaire,&#8221; a regular feature of the magazine, caught my eye. The subject was Ed Koch, former mayor of New York City&#8230; Who is your favorite hero of fiction? Doc Savage, man of bronze, who was very popular during my adolescent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_has_post_settings":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"At Yellowed Perils: Hizzoner, a fan of bronze. #pulpmags #docsavage #nycmayor http:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-K6","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[3,9,11],"tags":[],"hashtags":[],"class_list":["post-2858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pulpbits","category-people","category-pulps"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2qgXO-K6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2858"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2870,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2858\/revisions\/2870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2858"},{"taxonomy":"hashtags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepulp.net\/yellowedperils\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtags?post=2858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}