{"id":1026,"date":"2009-10-30T14:20:25","date_gmt":"2009-10-30T18:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/?p=1026"},"modified":"2010-06-08T16:40:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T20:40:25","slug":"snooze-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/30\/snooze-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Snooze to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So once again the Lemming News Services were fooled into thinking that <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Balloon_boy_hoax\" target=\"_blank\">Balloon Boy<\/a> was actual <em>news<\/em>, simply because &#8220;everyone else was covering it&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>If you recall, email spam got it&#8217;s name from a derogatory statement about the luncheon meat: email spam was mail that *seemed* like real mail, but wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>So we can extend that definition that to the Colorado fraud&#8211; it *seemed* like actual news, but wasn&#8217;t.  Spam + news = snews.  Snooze.<\/p>\n<p>That works.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So once again the Lemming News Services were fooled into thinking that Balloon Boy was actual news, simply because &#8220;everyone else was covering it&#8221;. If you recall, email spam got it&#8217;s name from a derogatory statement about the luncheon meat: email spam was mail that *seemed* like real mail, but wasn&#8217;t. So we can extend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lucas-photo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}