{"id":2594,"date":"2009-04-02T09:42:33","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T14:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2594"},"modified":"2009-04-02T09:42:33","modified_gmt":"2009-04-02T14:42:33","slug":"richters-deferential-robin-conans-absurdist-batman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/?p=2594","title":{"rendered":"Richter&#8217;s Deferential Robin &#038; Conan&#8217;s Absurdist Batman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Troy Patterson of <em>Slate<\/em>\u00a0revealed (to me) that Andy Richter will be rejoining Conan for his <em>Tonight Show <\/em>debut. And suddenly I am looking forward to the <em>Tonight Show<\/em>\u00a0with anticipation rather than mild interest. Patterson explains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2214729\/\">Richter&#8217;s challenge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So now it&#8217;s left to Richter, coming in from the cold, to revive the dying art of the late-night-show sidekick&#8230;Richter, meanwhile, has been and should be the deferential Robin to Conan&#8217;s absurdist Batman, a Boy Wonder with a Wonderbread deportment. Holy subordinate!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troy Patterson of Slate\u00a0revealed (to me) that Andy Richter will be rejoining Conan for his Tonight Show debut. And suddenly I am looking forward to the Tonight Show\u00a0with anticipation rather than mild interest. Patterson explains Richter&#8217;s challenge: So now it&#8217;s left to Richter, coming in from the cold, to revive the dying art of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,66],"tags":[1626,783,76,1557,1130],"class_list":["post-2594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-the-media","tag-andy-richter","tag-conan-obrien","tag-slate","tag-the-tonight-show","tag-troy-patterson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8qcx-FQ","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2596,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2594\/revisions\/2596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/2parse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}