{"id":5986,"date":"2006-01-17T06:36:20","date_gmt":"2006-01-17T11:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5986"},"modified":"2006-01-17T06:36:20","modified_gmt":"2006-01-17T11:36:20","slug":"good-article-badly-written","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/?p=5986","title":{"rendered":"GOOD ARTICLE, BADLY WRITTEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Cassidy needs to go back to J-school.  No way should a news piece ever start like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/local\/13643559.htm\">this<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sure, I was an eye-roller.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, we all know about home-schooling, right? Wacky families on the political fringes. Protective parents sheltering their kids from reality. Hopeless nerds who break out in hives at the thought of a school dance.<\/p>\n<p>Then Julie Boiko hit me right between the eyes. OK, she didn&#8217;t punch me. She&#8217;s too cool. Too collected. Too practiced at smacking down the questions about being 17 and home-schooled since kindergarten.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What dreck!  I&#8217;m pretty sure the assignment was not for Cassidy to write his autobiography.  It&#8217;s too bad, too.  The <em>real<\/em> subject of the piece is a successful HEK.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Cassidy needs to go back to J-school. No way should a news piece ever start like this: Sure, I was an eye-roller. I mean, we all know about home-schooling, right? Wacky families on the political fringes. Protective parents sheltering their kids from reality. Hopeless nerds who break out in hives at the thought of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cobranchi.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}