{"id":53,"date":"2005-06-02T22:42:59","date_gmt":"2005-06-03T06:42:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/?p=53"},"modified":"2005-06-03T01:04:13","modified_gmt":"2005-06-03T09:04:13","slug":"woodward-writes-of-deep-throat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/woodward-writes-of-deep-throat\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodward writes of Deep Throat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drum roll. I guess now it can be told by Bob Woodward.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote a long article in today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2005\/06\/01\/AR2005060102124.html\">Washington Post<\/a>, explaining his long history with Deep Throat.<\/p>\n<p>Appparently, this is a warm-up exercise for an instant book to be released soon by Mr. Woodward.  Then, too Mark Felt&#8217;s little-read out-of-print autobiography, The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0399119043\">FBI Pyramid from the Inside<\/a><br \/>\n will be revised and re-released with new Deep Throat information. (Amazon has a used $900 first edition that apparently has put there this week because the blurb for it mentions Deep Throat.)<\/p>\n<p>Quite frankly, I feeel Mr. Felt should get my first book-buying dollar on this matter, because of the risks he took.  (That puts aside that I actually like Nixon as a president.  He was great on foreign policy but apparently a paranoid wacko on domestic policy.  Really now, could student Vetnam protesters bring down the US government?  Did they even want to do that?)<\/p>\n<p>Woodward describes how he met Mark Felt so long ago that Woodward was in the Navy, a mere messenger carrying important papers to a meeting Felt attended. They somehow hit it off. Woodward realized Felt&#8217;s importance as an inside source in his future endeavors, and they kept in touch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drum roll. I guess now it can be told by Bob Woodward. He wrote a long article in today&#8217;s Washington Post, explaining his long history with Deep Throat. Appparently, this is a warm-up exercise for an instant book to be released soon by Mr. Woodward. Then, too Mark Felt&#8217;s little-read out-of-print autobiography, The FBI Pyramid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}