{"id":15816,"date":"2009-12-03T08:32:14","date_gmt":"2009-12-03T13:32:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=15816"},"modified":"2018-06-04T09:23:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T13:23:24","slug":"new-york-times-anti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/12\/03\/new-york-times-anti\/","title":{"rendered":"The New York Times publishes funny, poignant essay by Charles Antin &#039;02"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a <em>New York Times<\/em> essay, Charles Antin &#8217;02 chronicles his breakup with a live-in girlfriend of five years. &#8220;We divvied up our things, helped each other move into our new apartments, and then stopped seeing each other altogether \u2014 a cold-turkey breakup that I was sure was for the best,&#8221; he begins. &#8220;We didn\u2019t send e-mail messages, call or meet for coffee, and we certainly didn\u2019t go out for drinks. We did, however, remain Facebook friends.&#8221; Antin, an English major at Bates, is a wine specialist at Christies who is working on a collection of short stories. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/11\/22\/fashion\/22love.html\">View story from The New York Times, Nov. 22, 2009.<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden;width: 1px;height: 1px\">\n<p>WHEN I broke up with my live-in girlfriend of five years, we divvied up our  things, helped each other move into our new apartments, and then stopped seeing  each other altogether \u2014 a cold-turkey breakup that I was sure was for the best.  We didn\u2019t send e-mail messages, call or meet for coffee, and we certainly didn\u2019t  go out for drinks.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inlineLeft\">\n<div><a class=\"jumpLink\" href=\"#secondParagraph\">Skip to next  paragraph<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics8.nytimes.com\/images\/2009\/11\/20\/fashion\/22loveinline\/articleInline.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"230\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"credit\">Christopher Silas Neal<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><a href=\"mailto:modernlove@nytimes.com\">E-mail:  modernlove@nytimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a name=\"secondParagraph\"><\/a>We did, however, remain <a title=\"More articles about Facebook.\" href=\"http:\/\/topics.nytimes.com\/top\/news\/business\/companies\/facebook_inc\/index.html?inline=nyt-org\">Facebook<\/a> friends.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a New York Times essay, Charles Antin &#8217;02 chronicles his breakup&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[4,7,133,224,11009],"tags":[11051,3271,9512],"class_list":["post-15816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-life","category-alumni","category-creativity","category-society-culture","category-the-college","tag-bates-in-the-news","tag-english6","tag-writing-at-bates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82881,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15816\/revisions\/82881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}