{"id":598,"date":"2004-03-04T07:14:46","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T07:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=598"},"modified":"2004-03-04T07:14:46","modified_gmt":"2004-03-04T07:14:46","slug":"rule-no-1-dont-be-a-fucking-moron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/rule-no-1-dont-be-a-fucking-moron\/","title":{"rendered":"Rule No. 1: Don&#8217;t be a fucking moron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t imagine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/001504.html\">what the excuse was <\/a>for an editor changing &#8220;pro-life&#8221; to &#8220;anti-abortion&#8221; in an <i>opera review <\/i> that had <i>nothing to do with abortion,<\/i> but whoever you are, well: Thanks for all your help.<br \/>\n<P>Seems like every other day  I&#8217;m defending us from people who insist editors are narrow-minded, reflexive and unfit to handle the prose of actual writers because they do no writing themselves. And then shit like this happens, at the Los Angeles Times no less.<br \/>\n<P>I know, it&#8217;s not a reflection on all of us when one of us errs.  Nevertheless: as brainlock-induced fuck-ups go, this one&#8217;s gotta be in the top 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t imagine what the excuse was for an editor changing &#8220;pro-life&#8221; to &#8220;anti-abortion&#8221; in an opera review that had nothing to do with abortion, but whoever you are, well: Thanks for all your help. Seems like every other day&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/03\/rule-no-1-dont-be-a-fucking-moron\/\">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\/598"}],"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=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}