{"id":431,"date":"2008-11-18T12:05:01","date_gmt":"2008-11-18T17:05:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=431"},"modified":"2008-11-18T12:05:01","modified_gmt":"2008-11-18T17:05:01","slug":"headlines-now-dumber-than-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=431","title":{"rendered":"Headlines Now Dumber than Ever!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A headline on the front page of <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/\">BBC News Online<\/a> looks as though it came straight from The Onion:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is Obama black or mixed-race? Both, says a Harvard professor&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>They also went a little crazy on the quotation marks:<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<br \/>\n&#8230; grant that he is &#8220;part&#8221; black (by way of his father), but assert that because he also has a white mother it is not &#8220;accurate&#8221; to call him black. He is &#8220;in fact&#8221; mixed-race, they say.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/us_elections_2008\/7735503.stm\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A headline on the front page of BBC News Online looks as though it came straight from The Onion: &#8220;Is Obama black or mixed-race? Both, says a Harvard professor&#8221; They also went a little crazy on the quotation marks: &#8212; &#8230; grant that he is &#8220;part&#8221; black (by way of his father), but assert that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-languagelit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}