
{"id":14988,"date":"2010-12-30T10:28:13","date_gmt":"2010-12-30T15:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=14988"},"modified":"2010-12-30T10:29:28","modified_gmt":"2010-12-30T15:29:28","slug":"jim-shumaker-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/12\/30\/jim-shumaker-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Shumaker, 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Thousand Words<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>By Jock Lauterer<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2010\/12\/30\/jim-shumaker-1989\/jock123010\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14989\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jock123010.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jock123010\" width=\"500\" height=\"632\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14989\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jock123010.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jock123010-113x142.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jock123010-89x113.jpg 89w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jock123010-237x300.jpg 237w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jock123010-63x80.jpg 63w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nWhen Jim Shumaker died 10 years ago this week, it left a huge hole in local journalism, the J-School and my heart. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Shu,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d who schooled many a wet-behind-the-ears lad (including Citizen editor Kirk Ross) at the old Chapel Hill Weekly was famous for his typewriter-throwing tantrums. Why, in a fit, the old editor could shot put his long-suffering Underwood eight feet across the office onto his leather couch. Often as not, yr hmbl svt was the cause of such exertion. So this week, we celebrate the life of my first editor and second daddy, who went on to more fame and tirades at Howell Hall (before the J-School moved into its posh new digs in Carroll Hall). Shumaker may be better known in pop culture as the inspiration for the late Jeff MacNelly\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s curmudgeonous editor of the Treetops Tattler Tribune. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure MacNelly would approve of us reprinting his cartoon from the 1989 book Shu \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a collection of Shumaker\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s stellar columns edited and published by the late, great Roland Giduz, who writes in the book jacket, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Most important to Shu are the frailties and virtues of the common man, the simple life, and a distain for pomp, puffery and pretense.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2010\/12\/16\/fun-with-g-pop\/jockmug\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-14694\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jockmug.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jockmug\" width=\"150\" height=\"209\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jockmug.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jockmug-107x150.jpg 107w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jockmug-81x113.jpg 81w, https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/jockmug-57x80.jpg 57w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>A THOUSAND WORDS<\/strong><br \/>\nDo you have an important old photo that you value? Email your photo to jock@email.unc.edu and include the story behind the picture. Because every picture tells a story. And its worth? A thousand words.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/sections\/a-thousand-words\/\">More &#8220;A Thousand Words&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Jim shumaker died 10 years ago this week, it left a huge hole in local journalism, the J-school and my heart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":14989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[422],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-thousand-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14988"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14997,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14988\/revisions\/14997"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}