{"id":3149,"date":"2005-08-19T17:09:48","date_gmt":"2005-08-19T22:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2005\/08\/19\/damned-with-faint-headlines\/"},"modified":"2022-03-11T10:53:57","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:53:57","slug":"damned-with-faint-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2005\/08\/19\/damned-with-faint-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Damned with Faint Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure my pal <a title=\"ArchaeoTexture\" href=\"http:\/\/archaeotex.blogspot.com\/\">Jeff<\/a> will readily attest to the fact that running a small-town newspaper is beset with challenges of many kinds. You&#8217;re underpaid and overworked, and short on staff in every area&#8230;if, indeed, you even <em>have<\/em> a staff. There&#8217;s no backup when deadlines loom, and those deadlines just keep. on. coming.<\/p>\n<p>So, I present the following in the spirit of &#8220;laughing with them, not at them,&#8221; which will be of little comfort to the new publisher of the Fort Stockton Pioneer, who surely had a smothering spell when the latest edition arrived and the page one headline seemed to be, well, lacking&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ericsiegmund.com\/images\/fireant\/pioneerheadline.gif\" alt=\"Scan of newspaper headline\" width=\"420\" height=\"128\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<p>If there&#8217;s a silver lining to this scenario, it&#8217;s that if you&#8217;re going to accidentally omit a word in describing a verdict, it&#8217;s better to leave off the word they picked than the one immediately preceding it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So a headline is missing a word. It could have been worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-plain-silly","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3149"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8534,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3149\/revisions\/8534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}