{"id":103,"date":"2003-10-01T08:14:52","date_gmt":"2003-10-01T08:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=103"},"modified":"2003-10-01T08:14:52","modified_gmt":"2003-10-01T08:14:52","slug":"heads-and-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/10\/heads-and-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Heads and poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.testycopyeditors.org\/cgi-bin\/forum\/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&#038;f=3&#038;t=000526\">Testy Copy Editors on whether the twain should meet. <\/a> The post I most agree with: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It seems a better way of looking at headlines is not to say, &#8220;Heads are like poetry&#8221; but to say, &#8220;Heads are like prose,&#8221; by which I mean ordinary speech or writing; that would help weed out a lot of the shitty &#8220;cutesy&#8221; crap that often confuses The Reader (and the slot) but always seems to make contest judges happy; or even the jargon laden, headlinese that creeps in to some heads without giving The Reader any room to breath (and you know the kind of crap I mean).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Testy Copy Editors on whether the twain should meet. The post I most agree with: It seems a better way of looking at headlines is not to say, &#8220;Heads are like poetry&#8221; but to say, &#8220;Heads are like prose,&#8221; by&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/10\/heads-and-poetry\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}