{"id":2059,"date":"2008-08-08T13:59:54","date_gmt":"2008-08-08T18:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2059"},"modified":"2008-08-08T14:00:43","modified_gmt":"2008-08-08T19:00:43","slug":"news-youre-doing-it-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/news\/news-youre-doing-it-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"News: You&#8217;re doing it wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been kind of following the Russia\/Georgia thing on Twitter this afternoon, and when I went to Google News to get the latest news updates, I clicked through to the <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5gQYe039zkquHxitiI6u4M_TRr_BAD92E7MSO0\">AP&#8217;s story<\/a> about the U.S. calling for a ceasefire in South Ossetia.<\/p>\n<p>And what do I see? A locator map showing me where Washington, D.C., is. <\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/picture-11.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2061\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/news\/news-youre-doing-it-wrong\/attachment\/picture-11\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/picture-11.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"771,552\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"picture-11\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/picture-11.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/picture-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"picture-11\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/picture-11.jpg 771w, https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/picture-11-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks, AP. Are these damn maps generated automatically based on datelines? Or did a human make this happen? My mind boggles. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been kind of following the Russia\/Georgia thing on Twitter this afternoon, and when I went to Google News to get the latest news updates, I clicked through to the AP&#8217;s story about the U.S. calling for a ceasefire in South Ossetia. And what do I see? A locator map showing me where Washington, D.C., is. Thanks, AP. Are these damn maps generated automatically based on datelines? Or did a human make this happen? My&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[332,11],"tags":[472,471,435,2154],"class_list":["post-2059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bitchy-mccomplainsalot","category-news","tag-ap","tag-bitching","tag-internet","tag-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-xd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}