{"id":435,"date":"2003-12-17T09:36:47","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T09:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=435"},"modified":"2003-12-17T09:36:47","modified_gmt":"2003-12-17T09:36:47","slug":"talk-about-a-scoop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/talk-about-a-scoop\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk about a scoop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/home.hamptonroads.com\/stories\/story.cfm?story=63673&#038;ran=160614\">The Virginian-Pilot <\/a>tells how it broke the news of the Wright Brothers&#8217; first successful attempt at powered flight.  Even in 1903 the Wrights knew the value of manipulating the news: they wanted to give the exclusive to the paper back home in Dayton, Ohio, but a telegraph operator leaked it to the Virginian-Pilot.  <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> Splashed across the width of The Virginian-Pilot?s front page, the Dec. 18 headline shouted, ?Flying machine soars 3 miles in teeth of high wind over sand hills and waves at Kitty Hawk on Carolina coast.?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love that: &#8220;in teeth of high winds.&#8221; (link via Romenesko).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Virginian-Pilot tells how it broke the news of the Wright Brothers&#8217; first successful attempt at powered flight. Even in 1903 the Wrights knew the value of manipulating the news: they wanted to give the exclusive to the paper back&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2003\/12\/talk-about-a-scoop\/\">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":[24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435"}],"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=435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}