{"id":6112,"date":"2011-04-15T21:04:52","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T03:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=6112"},"modified":"2011-04-15T21:08:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-16T03:08:47","slug":"a-life-beyond-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=6112","title":{"rendered":"A Life Beyond Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6113\" style=\"width: 590px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/miltonquote.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6113\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6123\" title=\"miltonquote\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/miltonquote.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"361\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/miltonquote.jpg 580w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/miltonquote-300x186.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/miltonquote-400x248.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Milton quote from Areopagitica over the entry to the Rose Main Reading Room of the New York Public Library (Kirill Levin, Flickr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s sad, this morning.\u00a0 The death of a school. The execution by fiat of the University of Colorado\u2019s School of Journalism. I feel that I should be the one to carry the news to Professor Crossman out in Green Mountain Cemetery. I would recite for him from <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/halsall\/mod\/1643milton-areo.html\" target=\"_blank\">Areopagitica<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>When in September of 1946, when we veterans of World War II\u00a0 first crowded into the nation\u2019s universities, Professor Crossman on that first day spoke to us of the splendor of the press, the grandeur of newspapers, and the continuing crisis of freedom in their pages.\u00a0 He sent us away from that first class to memorize as much as we could possibly stuff in our heads of Milton\u2019s definitive argument for liberty of the press, <em>Areopagitica<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Those lines, today, today and tomorrow, remain stitched tightly into the fabric of my experience.<\/p>\n<p>I think that Dean of the College of Journalism, Professor Ralph Crossman, might, in some measure, be comforted what with hearing an old man, one of his most admiring students, recite from ancient memory Milton\u2019s powerful sentences&#8211;recite them to the earth under which that distinguished teacher and journalist&#8211; along with his school&#8211; lie buried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s sad, this morning.\u00a0 The death of a school. The execution by fiat of the University of Colorado\u2019s School of Journalism. I feel that I should be the one to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":295,"featured_media":6123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[218,224],"class_list":["post-6112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-cu","tag-journalism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/295"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6112"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6129,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112\/revisions\/6129"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}