{"id":4394,"date":"2008-04-27T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-27T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=4394"},"modified":"2017-11-09T10:14:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T16:14:54","slug":"going-for-the-shallow-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/27\/going-for-the-shallow-angle\/","title":{"rendered":"Going for the Shallow Angle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When someone wants to offer arguments on a political subject, how does the <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> highlight his reasoning?  Hah!  Trick question.  It doesn&#8217;t; it highlights <i>how he looks<\/i>!  The headline: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/education\/story\/382CEFF14FB8CF8E8625743700139FF7?OpenDocument\" target=\"_blank\">A boy-next-door is fighting affirmative action<\/a>.  The lead:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tim Asher sat calmly and appeared unfazed moments before he was to address a roomful of Latino leaders, some of whom were likely to be hostile to his message \u2014 that Missouri should end affirmative action programs based on race and gender.<\/p>\n<p>In the last couple of months, Asher, 45, has become accustomed to speaking before skeptical crowds like this one at Hispanic Day at the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Asher, with his boy-next-door looks, has become the face of the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, played, <i>Post-Dispatch<\/i> journalist and editor, well, played.<\/p>\n<p>Content of his character and\/or intellect?  Nah, that might be too convincing; let&#8217;s diminish him by calling him a pretty boy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When someone wants to offer arguments on a political subject, how does the St. Louis Post-Dispatch highlight his reasoning? Hah! Trick question. It doesn&#8217;t; it highlights how he looks! The headline: A boy-next-door is fighting affirmative action. The lead: Tim Asher sat calmly and appeared unfazed moments before he was to address a roomful of [&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-4394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394","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=4394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17339,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions\/17339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}