{"id":707,"date":"2006-09-07T09:16:18","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T13:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=707"},"modified":"2006-09-07T09:16:18","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T13:16:18","slug":"did-i-really-say-that-and-other-interactions-with-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=707","title":{"rendered":"Did I really say that? and other interactions with journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I was quoted in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbo.com\/news\/metro\/MGBT6RNLSRE.html\">local newspaper article<\/a> on our school district calendar as saying, &#8220;There was much kind of grumbling on the committee about those options.&#8221; <em>Much kind of<\/em>?? Someone please remind me to write everything down before I respond to off-the-cuff questions of a journalist.&nbsp; Peter Jennings I&#8217;m obviously not.<\/p>\n<p>Marilyn Brown was taking notes by hand, so I&#8217;m not sure I spoke those words as she took them down, but the sense of the statement was true: I <em>was<\/em> saying that some members of the local calendar committee had grumbled a bit about some of the restrictions that district staff had implied on the calendar. <\/p>\n<p>Hey, at least she spelled my name correctly!&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>And now you know why I take Philip Graham&#8217;s canard about journalism&#8217;s being the first draft of history quite literally. First drafts <em>always<\/em> get some things wrong. So I figure that a newspaper account that is 70% correct is doing fairly well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, I was quoted in a local newspaper article on our school district calendar as saying, &#8220;There was much kind of grumbling on the committee about those options.&#8221; Much kind of?? Someone please remind me to write everything down before I respond to off-the-cuff questions of a journalist.&nbsp; Peter Jennings I&#8217;m obviously not. Marilyn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-comments"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-bp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}