{"id":30,"date":"2003-09-17T07:44:56","date_gmt":"2003-09-17T07:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=30"},"modified":"2003-09-17T07:44:56","modified_gmt":"2003-09-17T07:44:56","slug":"bleat-reversal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/09\/bleat-reversal\/","title":{"rendered":"Bleat reversal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I whined about something I did wrong; now I can aggravate my carpal tunnel patting myself on the back for doing something right. It was a small detail but it&#8217;s the kind of thing that causes people to say &#8220;hey, nice catch.&#8221;  Of course it was on a mundane story of absolutely no consequence &#8230; a wrapup of Fashion Week, where tons of famous people showed up at fashion shows because, well, I guess that&#8217;s one of the unfortunate obligations of the famous. Anyway: The story says one of the famous was Venus Williams and immediately I&#8217;m thinking: &#8220;Why would she be going to fashion shows when <a href=\"http:\/\/reuters.com\/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&#038;storyID=3446975\">her sister&#8217;s been killed?<\/a>&#8221; Then it dawned on me: The story was written before that sad bit of news broke. Our options were either mentioning the murder (absurd in a fashion roundup) or removing the Venus reference (which helped the story seem less dated). We did the latter.<br \/>\n<P>Of course this brings up the be-careful-what-you-delete rule &#8230; I&#8217;m surprised now that it didn&#8217;t bite me because Murphy&#8217;s Law so inevitable: The one person you cut from the front page story will be the one pictured on the jump to fill space.  <P>(Tomorrow&#8217;s test of will: an entire day&#8217;s posting without using a colon.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The other day I whined about something I did wrong; now I can aggravate my carpal tunnel patting myself on the back for doing something right. It was a small detail but it&#8217;s the kind of thing that causes people&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/09\/bleat-reversal\/\">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":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30"}],"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=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}