{"id":10529,"date":"2014-03-07T14:58:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T22:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10529"},"modified":"2014-03-07T19:21:15","modified_gmt":"2014-03-08T03:21:15","slug":"in-memoriam-terry-bartcop-coppage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10529","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Terry ‘BartCop’ Coppage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The pioneering blogger and indefatigable, uncompromising and unapologetic critic of all things Rightwing, Terry Coppage, better known to the world as “BartCop”, has passed away.<\/p>\n

He will be sorely missed — at least by many<\/i> of us. “BartCop” has been raising hell, taking names and using the Internet to call out the bad guys longer than the word “blog” even existed, much less became known to the world. He also helped established the concept of political “snark” — of the most viciously biting kind — before that word existed either.<\/p>\n

Fellow pseudonymous blogger “Digby” of Hullabaloo<\/a> emails today to say: “Many of us early bloggers ‘met’ at Bartcop, including Atrios, Avedon and me. He’s one of the creators of the liberal blogosphere.”<\/p>\n

In his “Last Word”, published today at his site, Coppage asks readers to help “Mrs. Bart” live on…<\/a><\/p>\n

RIP, Terry. Thank you for everything. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The pioneering blogger and indefatigable, uncompromising and unapologetic critic of all things Rightwing, Terry Coppage, better known to the world as “BartCop”, has passed away. He will be sorely missed — at least by many of us. “BartCop” has been raising hell, taking names and using the Internet to call out the bad guys longer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,197],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-in-memoriam","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10529"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}