{"id":779,"date":"2004-03-27T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-27T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=779"},"modified":"2018-08-10T08:08:19","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T13:08:19","slug":"779","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/03\/27\/779\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalism Schools Need More Math Classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an Associated Press story for you:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/business\/stories.nsf\/Business\/ABB5BE1A4BA2207286256E640018F99E?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Consumers+rein+in+their+spending\" target=\"new\">Consumers rein in their spending<\/a>.  The online version doesn&#8217;t carry the subtitle the print version does, but the lead drives the message home:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON &#8211; Consumers, a key force shaping the nation&#8217;s economic recovery, grew more restrained in February, <b>increasing their spending by only 0.2 percent<\/b>. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>These are the same people who say that a slower increase in government spending is a cut.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about you, but I wouldn&#8217;t trust a reporter to tally a split check at a restaurant, much less explain the world or commerce to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an Associated Press story for you: Consumers rein in their spending. The online version doesn&#8217;t carry the subtitle the print version does, but the lead drives the message home: WASHINGTON &#8211; Consumers, a key force shaping the nation&#8217;s economic recovery, grew more restrained in February, increasing their spending by only 0.2 percent. These are [&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-779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779","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=779"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22614,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779\/revisions\/22614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}