{"id":3450,"date":"2006-11-26T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-26T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3450"},"modified":"2017-12-12T15:47:06","modified_gmt":"2017-12-12T21:47:06","slug":"ap-headline-misses-critical-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2006\/11\/26\/ap-headline-misses-critical-word\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Headline Misses Critical Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Headline: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/nation\/story\/623E2845C8AD2AB886257231005B0F0D?OpenDocument\" target=\"_new\">Honduras fines U.S. subsidiary over alleged mercenary training<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s odd, I didn&#8217;t realize that the United States of America had subsidiaries.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Honduran government said Friday it has fined the local subsidiary of a U.S. <b>company<\/b> $25,000 for allegedly training more than 300 Hondurans and foreigners last year to work as mercenaries in Iraq.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, brevity is the soul of wit, headline writing, and negatively painting the big bad superpower inaccurately.<\/p>\n<p>Reading the story, apparently the company was training people to work as security guards in Iraq, which means that I&#8217;ll have to start calling Rose, the desk guard at the building in which I work, a <i>mercenary<\/i> since that&#8217;s what the Honduran government would call her.  But hey, free $25,000!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headline: Honduras fines U.S. subsidiary over alleged mercenary training. That&#8217;s odd, I didn&#8217;t realize that the United States of America had subsidiaries. Oh, wait: The Honduran government said Friday it has fined the local subsidiary of a U.S. company $25,000 for allegedly training more than 300 Hondurans and foreigners last year to work as mercenaries [&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-3450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450","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=3450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18422,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3450\/revisions\/18422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}