{"id":175,"date":"2003-10-16T07:44:51","date_gmt":"2003-10-16T07:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=175"},"modified":"2003-10-16T07:44:51","modified_gmt":"2003-10-16T07:44:51","slug":"a-media-mauling-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/10\/a-media-mauling-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"A media mauling in action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some guy does what any of us would do in his shoes, and the next thing you know he&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojr.org\/ojr\/technology\/1066258791.php\">Public Enemy No. 1<\/a>.  I realize in this day and age that the Cubs fan in question would&#8217;ve been named by somebody and that once news organizations had his name they&#8217;d have to run with. But for Christ&#8217;s sake (really, I&#8217;m talking Jesus &#8212; you know the Great Forgiver), can&#8217;t we cut this guy some slack? The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bayarea.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/sports\/7027277.htm\">Cubs pitchers, coaches, hitters and fielders  folded under pressure in games six and seven<\/a>, and that&#8217;s what cost them their chance to lose the World Series.  Let&#8217;s leave this guy alone with his heartbreak and move on. And maybe try to keep our perspective the next time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some guy does what any of us would do in his shoes, and the next thing you know he&#8217;s Public Enemy No. 1. I realize in this day and age that the Cubs fan in question would&#8217;ve been named by&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/10\/a-media-mauling-in-action\/\">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":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175"}],"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=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}