{"id":669,"date":"2006-09-15T11:00:30","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/09\/15\/a-few-words-about-headlines\/"},"modified":"2006-09-15T11:16:20","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T15:16:20","slug":"a-few-words-about-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/15\/a-few-words-about-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"A few words about headlines."},"content":{"rendered":"

My evil genius pal Alex<\/a> points out this headline<\/a>. It took me an embarrassingly long moment to realize just how funny it was, but then it clicked and I realized the thing was worthy of Fletch<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Daily Mail has a headline<\/a> that’s just as funny, but for different reasons. (Be warned: the page linked to there includes a picture which while technically Safe For Work, is definitely not anything you want to see.) I can’t believe that heads of state actually have time to care about this.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, there’s a great story going on in Columbia<\/a>, albeit on that probably won’t end well. I’m sure the MSNBC people think that story came with a great headline, but I prefer the one my friend Kira suggests: Lysistrata<\/a> Redux. (I wonder what percentage of the MSNBC audience would need annotations for that title.)<\/p>\n

And, of course, a very large percentage of the headlines between now and the mid-term elections will boil down to this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My evil genius pal Alex points out this headline. It took me an embarrassingly long moment to realize just how funny it was, but then it clicked and I realized the thing was worthy of Fletch. The Daily Mail has a headline that’s just as funny, but for different reasons. (Be warned: the page linked to there includes a picture… Read more →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-aN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}