{"id":758,"date":"2004-04-22T08:47:09","date_gmt":"2004-04-22T08:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/?p=758"},"modified":"2004-04-22T08:47:09","modified_gmt":"2004-04-22T08:47:09","slug":"ap-stylebook-worthless-at-porn-mag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/04\/ap-stylebook-worthless-at-porn-mag\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Stylebook worthless at porn mag"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.maudnewton.com\/\">Maud&#8217;s blog<\/a> has an amusing entry about a guy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viceland.com\/issues\/v11n3\/htdocs\/lying.php\">who lied his way into the editorship of a gay-porn mag<\/a>. Maud&#8217;s excerpt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There was the flamboyant gay editor who could barely speak English?let alone use grammar correctly; the standard office whore; and a bitter old copy editor who had been with the company for decades. His office doubled as the storeroom, and every time he saw me he screamed, &#8220;I hope you know The Chicago Manual of Style! We don&#8217;t use that pussy New York one!&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And no mention of AP whatsoever. Could be thought of as a selling point, I suppose. (Warning, the link&#8217;s not work-safe; the site hosting it, called Viceland, has a lot of  deeply twisted stuff that&#8217;s interesting  primarily for its ability to trigger your gag reflex.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maud&#8217;s blog has an amusing entry about a guy who lied his way into the editorship of a gay-porn mag. Maud&#8217;s excerpt: There was the flamboyant gay editor who could barely speak English?let alone use grammar correctly; the standard office&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/2004\/04\/ap-stylebook-worthless-at-porn-mag\/\">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":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758"}],"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=758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tommangan.net\/printsthechaff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}