{"id":34,"date":"2005-10-31T15:09:40","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T15:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"\/yorktownsquare\/2005\/10\/31\/move-over-desperate-housewives\/"},"modified":"2005-10-31T15:09:40","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T15:09:40","slug":"move-over-desperate-housewives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/move-over-desperate-housewives\/","title":{"rendered":"Move over, Desperate Housewives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, a re-run of \u201cDesperate Housewives&#8221; caused people to channel surf in great numbers Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nWhat did, oh, about half the world \u2014 well, half of Central Pennsylvania \u2014 see on their TV? Yes, that was me on Pennsylvania Cable Network\u2019s \u201cPA Books,&#8221; speaking about my newest book \u201cIn The Thick of the Fight, York County, Pa., Counters Axis Threat in WWII.&#8221;<br \/>\nI\u2019ve heard lots of parodies so far of my performance on the wrong end of an interview.<br \/>\nThe show <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcntv.com\/\">http:\/\/www.pcntv.com\/<\/a> \u2014 if not last night\u2019s guest \u2014 is always a well-done 60-minute profile of a state author&#8217;s work.<br \/>\nBrian Lockman has the desirable \u2014 but difficult \u2014 job of reading a book a week to gather questions to pose to his guests.<br \/>\nHe has the Post-It notes throughout to prove he\u2019s digested the material.<br \/>\nBut PCN has done so much good work on World War II that Brian probably could have skimmed \u201cIn the Thick\u203f and still pulled off the interview.<br \/>\nPCN, through Stackpole Books, has put together a wonderful book, \u201cWorld War II: In Their Own Words, an Oral History of Pennsylvania\u2019s Veterans.&#8221; (The book contains the reminiscences of at least one York County veteran \u2014 Murray Friedman.)<br \/>\nI\u2019ve been on &#8220;PA Books&#8221; once before, after \u201cNine Months in York Town\u203f came out.<br \/>\nSo I thought I was ready for Brian\u2019s early rapid-fire questions. As soon as he got the green light, he fired away. I stumbled out of the gate and not sure I ever recovered.<br \/>\nBut I hope the over-arching theme came through: York County paid a considerable price in World War II \u2014 including 571 dead \u2014 so that we have the freedoms we enjoy today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, a re-run of \u201cDesperate Housewives&#8221; caused people to channel surf in great numbers Sunday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,6,4,8,25,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives-all-posts","category-books-reading","category-events","category-local-journalism-web","category-people","category-war","category-world-war-ii"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Move over, Desperate Housewives - York Town Square<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/yorkblog.com\/yorktownsquare\/move-over-desperate-housewives\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Move over, Desperate Housewives - York Town Square\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"So, a re-run of \u201cDesperate Housewives&#8221; 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