{"id":5448,"date":"2009-01-14T10:19:33","date_gmt":"2009-01-14T18:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/?p=5448"},"modified":"2019-12-23T13:38:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T21:38:41","slug":"clumsy-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2009\/01\/14\/clumsy-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Clumsy Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4596,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/localnews\\\/2008626921_apwapoliceshooting.html?syndication=rss&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/localnews\\\/2008626921_apwapoliceshooting.html?syndication=rss&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4597,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/localnews\\\/2008627109_webcopshooting14m.html?syndication=rss&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\\\/html\\\/localnews\\\/2008627109_webcopshooting14m.html?syndication=rss&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/policeknife.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/policeknife-500x227.gif\" alt=\"Seattle Police Reportedly Kill Man With Knife\" title=\"policeknife\" width=\"500\" height=\"227\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5447\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oh, the joys of clumsy headline writing. Here&#8217;s two versions of the same story. The first seemed really odd when I saw it come up in Google Reader. &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2008626921_apwapoliceshooting.html?syndication=rss\" title=\"Seattle Times: Seattle Police Reportedly Kill Man With Knife\">Seattle Police Reportedly Kill Man With Knife<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; as written, grammatically, that tells me that the police stabbed a man to death. But that can&#8217;t be right, can it? The article summary clears it up (mostly: one could make an argument that the summary states that the police killed a man by shooting a knife at him, but while that fits the grammar, it&#8217;s a bit of a stretch to think that someone would derive that meaning), as does <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2008627109_webcopshooting14m.html?syndication=rss\" title=\"Seattle Times: Man with knife shot and killed by Seattle police early this morning\">the second article<\/a> with a more well-written headline and summary, but it gave me a bit of a laugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seattle Police Reportedly Kill Man With Knife &#8212; as written, grammatically, that tells me that the police stabbed a man to death. But that can&#8217;t be right, can it?<\/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-5448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5448","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=5448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}