{"id":34,"date":"2003-09-19T08:20:59","date_gmt":"2003-09-19T08:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=34"},"modified":"2003-09-19T08:20:59","modified_gmt":"2003-09-19T08:20:59","slug":"never-pole-vault-alone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/09\/never-pole-vault-alone\/","title":{"rendered":"Never pole vault alone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Stone has<a href=\"http:\/\/masterstrack.com\/blog\/archives\/000192.html\"> a post that tells why.<\/a> This link hasn&#8217;t much to do with newspaper editing but a lot to do with the coolness of blogging. I check all my editors&#8217; blogs for links every day or so. Ken&#8217;s blog is for masters track competitors,  so you&#8217;d have to be a high jumper to give a flip (<i>sorry<\/i>) about most of his links. Still, I stop by because it takes 10 seconds and who knows, maybe something cool will turn up.  This morning I clicked on the story of a guy whose hobby is pole vaulting, and how a split second of bad luck nearly ruined his life. It&#8217;s gripping (<i>sorry again<\/i>) reading.  This amazing tendency to stumble across fascinating stuff online creates the urge to pass it along.  Blogging just makes it a lot easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Stone has a post that tells why. This link hasn&#8217;t much to do with newspaper editing but a lot to do with the coolness of blogging. I check all my editors&#8217; blogs for links every day or so. Ken&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/09\/never-pole-vault-alone\/\">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":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34"}],"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=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}