{"id":981,"date":"2012-04-19T21:37:20","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T02:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.snc.edu\/susanallen\/?p=981"},"modified":"2012-04-19T21:37:20","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T02:37:20","slug":"a-fine-regard-for-excellence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/c-collegemagazines\/a-fine-regard-for-excellence\/","title":{"rendered":"A fine regard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/universityofportland\/docs\/portland-magazine-summer-2011?mode=window&amp;backgroundColor=%23222222\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-982\" src=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Portland-Magazine-Summer-2011.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a>Happily curled up tonight with a short stack of Portland magazines, kindly shared by our contributor Tony Staley, who is an alum of the university. This Holy Cross foundation\u2019s magazine is as sweet, quirky and literate as its editor, Brian Doyle \u2013 just read his editorial in <a href=\"http:\/\/issuu.com\/universityofportland\/docs\/portland-magazine-summer-2011?mode=window&amp;backgroundColor=%23222222\">this issue<\/a>. What\u2019s more, it has been called \u201cthe best spiritual magazine in America\u201d by none other than Annie Dillard.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s stop and think about that for a moment. A reputation is a fine thing \u2013 not least because it gives you something fine to live up to. I think a reputation for just one facet that reaches to AND beyond its intended audience may be a very good thing for a university or college magazine. It\u2019s got to be the best antidote to any tendency to provincialism.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, how adorable is this cover? Among magazine editors, using children and\/or animals on the cover is regarded as out-and-out cheating. And a little redhead \u2013 with freckles to boot \u2013 PLUS cute bug? \u00a0That\u2019s just downright mean to all the other magazines!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happily curled up tonight with a short stack of Portland magazines, kindly shared by our contributor Tony Staley, who is an alum of the university. This Holy Cross foundation\u2019s magazine is as sweet, quirky and literate as its editor, Brian&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/c-collegemagazines\/a-fine-regard-for-excellence\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[28,49,101,235,295,313],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sncmagazine.knight.domains\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}