{"id":2161,"date":"2008-11-05T16:30:07","date_gmt":"2008-11-05T22:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2008-11-05T16:30:07","modified_gmt":"2008-11-05T22:30:07","slug":"surreal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/news\/surreal\/","title":{"rendered":"Surreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/theogeo\/3006612830\/\" title=\"People coming to buy papers by theogeo, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3036\/3006612830_8cdf7ea746.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"People coming to buy papers\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They are directing traffic in the parking lot of my office so that people can drive up and buy editions of today&#8217;s paper. Demand was so high that they printed up 40,000 additional copies and they&#8217;ll be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/commemorative-section\/#\">offering up other promotional items<\/a> in the days to come. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve not been in the newspaper business very long, so I&#8217;ve only lived through an era in which print is said to be dying a slow death. I&#8217;ve never really known what it feels like to face great demand for your product, so I have to confess: It&#8217;s flippin&#8217; awesome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They are directing traffic in the parking lot of my office so that people can drive up and buy editions of today&#8217;s paper. Demand was so high that they printed up 40,000 additional copies and they&#8217;ll be offering up other promotional items in the days to come. I&#8217;ve not been in the newspaper business very long, so I&#8217;ve only lived through an era in which print is said to be dying a slow death. I&#8217;ve&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":[11,14,140,57],"tags":[469,2154,537,547,616],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-newspaper-stuff","category-politics","category-work","tag-election","tag-news","tag-newspaper","tag-obama","tag-surreal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s1jWWl-surreal","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","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=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}