{"id":16828,"date":"2010-02-11T19:07:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T03:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=16828"},"modified":"2010-02-11T19:42:18","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T03:42:18","slug":"fly-fishing-with-darth-vader-and-other-adventures-with-evangelical-wrestlers-political-hitmen-and-jewish-cowboys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=16828","title":{"rendered":"Fly Fishing With Darth Vader: And Other Adventures with Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Author Matt Labash emails: <\/p>\n<p>Hey Luke, long time, no talk. Thought you should know my new book&#8217;s out, and you&#8217;re in it. <A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/luke_ford\/clips\/clips.html\">The porners meet the professors piece, in which you served as my guide<\/a>. The book is kind of a rogue&#8217;s gallery of some of my more vivid character studies. So you&#8217;re in good company: Marion Barry, Donald Trump, Mudcat Saunders, Dick Cheney, Kinky Friedman, Al Sharpton, Edwin Edwards, Jim Traficant, Christopher Hitchens, and others. And right smack in the middle of the Rogue&#8217;s Mount Rushmore &#8211; Luke Ford. If memory serves, you&#8217;re the only Australian porn journalist\/converted Orthodox Jew of the bunch. In case you want to pass the link on to your legions of teenage fans:<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fly-Fishing-Darth-Vader-Evangelical\/dp\/1439159971\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1265942023&#038;sr=8-1\">http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Fly-Fishing-Darth-Vader-Evangelical\/dp\/1439159971\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;s=books&#038;qid=1265942023&#038;sr=8-1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author Matt Labash emails: Hey Luke, long time, no talk. Thought you should know my new book&#8217;s out, and you&#8217;re in it. The porners meet the professors piece, in which you served as my guide. The book is kind of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=16828\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14564],"tags":[29820,19613,21416,21418,21419,21415,11136,3655,21417],"class_list":["post-16828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-christopher-hitchens","tag-darth-vader","tag-hitmen","tag-jim-traficant","tag-kinky-friedman","tag-matt-labash","tag-mudcat-saunders","tag-wall-street-journal","tag-wrestlers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}