{"id":2208,"date":"2005-05-02T14:29:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-02T14:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2208"},"modified":"2018-06-29T07:20:24","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T12:20:24","slug":"2208","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/02\/2208\/","title":{"rendered":"Well-Informed Journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;u=\/ap\/20050501\/ap_on_he_me\/cold_medicines_1\" target=\"_new\">Group Pushes Restricting of Cold Medicine<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An association representing more than 36,000 pharmacies is issuing guidelines for possible federal legislation to restrict sales of cold medications containing a substance often used in the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine \u2014 or &#8220;speed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>Amphetamines<\/i> are speed.  <i>Methamphetamines<\/i> are crank.<\/p>\n<p>But that&#8217;s just the word on the street, as filtered by a blogger who only hears the silence on the cul-de-sac.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the media gives play to a group espousing more regulation.  Shocker.  Put out the Drudge siren.  Speaking of which, why does everyone call the rotating light image the &#8220;Drudge siren&#8221;?  Sirens make a sound.  The Drudge Siren does not.  Why does the blogging world insist upon destroying the semantic difference between <i>light<\/i> and <i>siren<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Group Pushes Restricting of Cold Medicine: An association representing more than 36,000 pharmacies is issuing guidelines for possible federal legislation to restrict sales of cold medications containing a substance often used in the illegal manufacture of methamphetamine \u2014 or &#8220;speed.&#8221; Amphetamines are speed. Methamphetamines are crank. But that&#8217;s just the word on the street, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20245,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2208\/revisions\/20245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}