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Tuesday, June 28, 2005:<\/span><\/strong> <\/span>I am writing together<\/span> so many odds and ends that I’ve been taking notes on for more than a week that they qualify for placement under various dates, not just today. This riff has as its genesis the 29th annual conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists<\/a>, which was June 23-26 in Grapevine, the Fort Worth-Dallas suburb that has lent its Zip code to DFW airport. -30-<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tuesday, June 28, 2005: I am writing together so many odds and ends that I’ve been taking notes on for more than a week that they qualify for placement under various dates, not just today. This riff has as its genesis the 29th annual conference of the National Society of Newspaper Columnists, which was June […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-90","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grapevine-2005","tag-columnist"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":91,"url":"https:\/\/benpollock.com\/brick\/2005\/06\/hat-trick\/","url_meta":{"origin":90,"position":0},"title":"Hat trick","author":"Ben S. 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