{"id":357,"date":"2008-03-30T22:16:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-31T02:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=357"},"modified":"2008-03-30T22:20:14","modified_gmt":"2008-03-31T02:20:14","slug":"where-was-the-editor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"Where Was the Editor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/instapundit.com\/archives2\/017153.php\">InstaPundit<\/a> quotes a story from the <em>Des Moines Register<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A pizza deliveryman told Des Moines police that he shot a man who robbed him at gunpoint when he delivered a pie late Thursday to a south-side address.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>My first thought was that the pizza deliveryman was late delivering a pizza on Thursday night, and that&#8217;s why he was robbed. Perhaps the buyer misunderstood the usual &#8217;30 minutes or free&#8217; guarantee as allowing him to point a gun at the pizza guy to make sure the pizza was free. It was only when I reread the sentence that I realized that it probably meant that the pizza deliveryman was robbed late at night on a Thursday, and that he was (presumably) on time. We are often told that the difference between traditional and new media is that newspapers have editors to correct inaccurate and ineptly written first drafts. The system is far from foolproof, at least in Des Moines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>InstaPundit quotes a story from the Des Moines Register: A pizza deliveryman told Des Moines police that he shot a man who robbed him at gunpoint when he delivered a pie late Thursday to a south-side address. My first thought was that the pizza deliveryman was late delivering a pizza on Thursday night, and that&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orbilius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}