{"id":1536,"date":"2008-08-08T16:32:50","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T20:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/MondoLizzie\/?p=1536"},"modified":"2008-08-08T16:32:50","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T20:32:50","slug":"cutting-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/cutting-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutting Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salemnews.com\/punews\/local_story_221010804.html?keyword=topstory\">The Salem News<\/a>, staff writers Chris Cassidy, Amanda McGregor, and Tom Dalton penned the following quip in a longer column about this and that:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Cutting remarks<\/p>\n<p>Folks in Fall River have an ax to grind with Salem, according to that city&#8217;s hometown newspaper, The Herald News.<\/p>\n<p>With the opening of the Lizzie Borden museum in Salem, many in Borden&#8217;s former hometown are wondering if the Witch City is trying to steal the legend of the accused ax murderer to turn a profit.<\/p>\n<p>Lizzie Borden, after all, has pretty much no connection whatsoever to Salem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Aren&#8217;t the witches enough? Can&#8217;t we have Lizzie Borden?&#8221; Jules Ryckebusch, a retired Bristol Community College professor, told the Herald News.<\/p>\n<p>The paper also compares the way the two cities have portrayed their respective historic tragedies, pointing out that the Lizzie Borden Bed &amp; Breakfast presents the murders as a history lesson &#8220;without the tacky neon signs, fake mist and spooky soundtracks of so many of Salem&#8217;s witch &#8216;museums.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then again, many in the Witch City may feel the same way.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today in The Salem News, staff writers Chris Cassidy, Amanda McGregor, and Tom Dalton penned the following quip in a longer column about this and that: Cutting remarks Folks in Fall River have an ax to grind with Salem, according to that city&#8217;s hometown newspaper, The Herald News. With the opening of the Lizzie Borden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,13,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6-degrees-of-separation","category-book-and-media-reviews","category-borden-buzz","category-fall-river-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lizzieandrewborden.com\/mondolizzie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}