{"id":321,"date":"2003-11-18T07:58:16","date_gmt":"2003-11-18T07:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=321"},"modified":"2003-11-18T07:58:16","modified_gmt":"2003-11-18T07:58:16","slug":"killing-the-maestro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/11\/killing-the-maestro\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing the maestro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another fine Testy Copy Editors thread, this one about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.testycopyeditors.org\/cgi-bin\/forum\/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&#038;f=4&#038;t=000129\">a newsroom cleanup that uncovers a booklet about one of those &#8220;maestro&#8221; gurus<\/a> from the mid-&#8217;90s, which includes swell advice like this: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>-To begin setting up a Display Desk, first take a copy desk and absolve it of responsibility for editing copy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Because, you know, even though this is what we&#8217;re paid to do, it&#8217;s such fiendish work that we simply must have absolution to wash away our sins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another fine Testy Copy Editors thread, this one about a newsroom cleanup that uncovers a booklet about one of those &#8220;maestro&#8221; gurus from the mid-&#8217;90s, which includes swell advice like this: -To begin setting up a Display Desk, first take&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/11\/killing-the-maestro\/\">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":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321"}],"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=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}