{"id":304,"date":"2007-04-15T11:59:12","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T16:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/index.php\/2007\/04\/15\/mea-gulpa\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T23:24:57","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T05:24:57","slug":"mea-gulpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2007\/04\/mea-gulpa\/","title":{"rendered":"Mea Gulpa"},"content":{"rendered":"

Writer Salman Rushdie is coming to town, and I recalled I wrote a column about his troubles. It was a peach, in my fuzzy memory, so surely I had posted it online, right?<\/p>\n

Well, it is there<\/a>, now. It was from 1989, and I had to type it in earlier today because I wrote it in the Little Rock newsroom and never transferred the file to a home computer. I didn’t have one until 1994, anyway.<\/p>\n

Then, a mea culpa moment. I saw that a column that I did put on www.benpollock.com<\/a> (they’re representative — I can’t tell if they’re any good now) actually only was a place-holder with dummy words. The more I looked. … Eighteen files were essentially blank. Gulp.<\/p>\n

Well, they are there, now. -30-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Writer Salman Rushdie is coming to town, and I recalled I wrote a column about his troubles. It was a peach, in my fuzzy memory, so surely I had posted it online, right? Well, it is there, now. 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