{"id":572,"date":"2005-11-13T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-13T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2005-11-13T01:17:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-13T01:17:00","slug":"copy-editing-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/copy-editing-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Copy editing humor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this can be enjoyed by anyone who likes their Saturday evening news with a dose of schadenfreude. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>DANBURY, Conn. &#8212; The News-Times has apologized and fired a copy editor who put an offensive caption on its Web page under a photo of a girls&#8217; high school soccer team.<\/p>\n<p>The Immaculate High School girls&#8217; team was celebrating a goal scored in a championship-clinching win Nov. 5. The newspaper&#8217;s Web site published a photograph of the jubilant team, but said it was celebrating a teammate&#8217;s decision to &#8220;come out of the closet as a lesbian.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh, that&#8217;s good stuff. Read the whole story <a href=\"http:\/\/www.courant.com\/news\/local\/hc-11171423.apds.m0571.bc-ct--newsnov11,0,2102879.story?&#038;track=rss\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Cox, you&#8217;ll have to refresh my memory about what happened at the paper that accidentally printed a dummy headline that called some guy a donkey fucker or something. It&#8217;s a miracle that &#8220;subhed goes here here and here&#8221; is the worst thing we ever let slip in <i>Sidelines<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fark.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fark<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this can be enjoyed by anyone who likes their Saturday evening news with a dose of schadenfreude. DANBURY, Conn. &#8212; The News-Times has apologized and fired a copy editor who put an offensive caption on its Web page under a photo of a girls&#8217; high school soccer team. The Immaculate High School girls&#8217; team was celebrating a goal scored in a championship-clinching win Nov. 5. The newspaper&#8217;s Web site published a photograph of the&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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1jWWl-9e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572","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=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theogeo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}