{"id":1940,"date":"2003-11-12T14:34:01","date_gmt":"2003-11-13T06:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/12\/bad-headline-award\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:37:55","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:37:55","slug":"bad-headline-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/12\/bad-headline-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad headline award"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12848,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com\\\/wp-dyn\\\/articles\\\/A26435-2003Nov11.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>One of the many reasons why I love the English language is how sentences can parse in entirely unintentional ways. For instance, from the Washington Post:<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A26435-2003Nov11.html\" title=\"Girl Scout Beaver Traps Upset Activists\">Girl Scout Beaver Traps Upset Activists<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Those poor activists! Someone really needs to cheer them up &#8212; but first, get them away from that Girl Scout!<\/p>\n<p>The copyeditors <em>really<\/em> should have caught that one before it made it to press&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(via The Usual Suspects)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those poor activists! Someone really needs to cheer them up &mdash; but first, get them away from that Girl Scout!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[6],"class_list":["post-1940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}