I am saddened to hear that \"The Straight Dope\" is ending. I aspired to be like \"Cecil Adams\" when I was a music reviewer, interweaving knowledge of the subject with a smart-aleck attitude. I don't know if I ever reached either goal.<\/em><\/p>\nI had the good fortune of interviewing Ed Zotti many years ago, and found him to be an outgoing individual who was more than happy to talk about writing and the column to a fairly unknown such as myself. He also inscribed a recent edition of columns in book form to my dad, and added in some very kind words about me. I wish Mr. Zotti well . . . and I guess \"thank you\" isn't really sufficient, but it will have to do.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicago journalist, author and radio personality Amy Guth has been named executive director of the Midwest Independent Film Festival. Billed as the nation's only film festival solely dedicated to the Midwest filmmaker, the organization presents regionally produced independent cinema year round. Screenings are on the first Tuesday of the month at Chicago\u2019s Landmark Century Centre... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18585"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18585"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18595,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18585\/revisions\/18595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}