{"id":518,"date":"2004-01-28T09:04:41","date_gmt":"2004-01-28T09:04:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=518"},"modified":"2004-01-28T09:04:41","modified_gmt":"2004-01-28T09:04:41","slug":"big-time-copy-chiefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/01\/big-time-copy-chiefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Big-time copy chiefing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Walsh, national desk copy chief at the Washington Post, on <a href=\"http:\/\/theslot.blogspot.com\/2004_01_01_theslot_archive.html#107527764856717434\">copy chiefing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Doing a copy-chief job is like having 1,000 baseballs simultaneously dropped on you &#8212; and then being asked why in the world you didn&#8217;t knock ball No. 778 (which, after all, was right in your strike zone) out of the park.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I figure Bill must have some dark terrible secret in his past &#8212; and there are photos. It&#8217;d be the only sane explanation for why somebody takes a job with <i>that much<\/i> pressure.  I mean, when I screw something up a few exasperated Britney Spears fans sneer at the paper and call us morons on their blogs; when he screws up, people lose elections and stuff.<\/p>\n<p> (OK, that&#8217;s an exaggeration, but a least I won&#8217;t get any e-mails saying &#8220;Cheney&#8217;s pissed about that headline on A27.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Walsh, national desk copy chief at the Washington Post, on copy chiefing: Doing a copy-chief job is like having 1,000 baseballs simultaneously dropped on you &#8212; and then being asked why in the world you didn&#8217;t knock ball No.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/01\/big-time-copy-chiefing\/\">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":[16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518"}],"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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}