{"id":111231,"date":"2023-04-03T00:38:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T00:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=111231"},"modified":"2023-04-03T00:38:17","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T00:38:17","slug":"the-texas-observer-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=111231","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Texas Observer Lives!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.texasobserver.org\/the-texas-observer-lives\/\" target=\"_blank\">TX Observer<\/a>: &#8220;The thing that non-journalists tend not to appreciate is that magazines are not a business. Well, they are, but they\u2019re more than that. As I Tweeted:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is not a WalMart you can just shut down. They don\u2019t own the&nbsp;<em>Texas Observer<\/em>. None of us do. It\u2019s an idea in the minds of our readers. Of the people who work here now. Of everyone who has worked here before.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the office, we like to say that \u201cWhen Texas is at its worst, the&nbsp;<em>Texas Observer<\/em>&nbsp;is at its best.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texas is a mess, y\u2019all. Women are under attack. Queers and trans kids are under attack. People of color are under attack. Poor people are getting poorer. The old white dudes who run the state are trying to drive away anyone who isn\u2019t straight, white, male, and Christian from Texas until only the craziest racists, queerphobes, misogynists, and Bible-thumpers remain.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We can\u2019t let them. This is&nbsp;<em>our<\/em>&nbsp;state. We need to speak and fight for those who can\u2019t. To invite people of color and women and those affected by the awful Greg Abbott\u2019s cruelty speak for themselves, too, in our pages.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Texas needs an Observer. Democracy needs the&nbsp;<em>Texas Observer<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, the board voted to rescind the layoffs. We now have a new, fired-up board with both old and new energy. We\u2019re moving forward together to make sure this thing is around in six months. That we\u2019re here in another 69 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TX Observer: &#8220;The thing that non-journalists tend not to appreciate is that magazines are not a business. Well, they are, but they\u2019re more than that. As I Tweeted: This is not a WalMart you can just shut down. They don\u2019t own the&nbsp;Texas Observer. None of us do. It\u2019s an idea in the minds of our&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111232,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111231\/revisions\/111232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}