{"id":11072,"date":"2019-06-10T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T15:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=11072"},"modified":"2019-06-10T00:07:55","modified_gmt":"2019-06-10T05:07:55","slug":"the-perils-of-preparation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-perils-of-preparation\/","title":{"rendered":"The perils of preparation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, special sections must be set up ahead of time, mostly ready to go when the buzzer sounds or the final out is made. So, seeing that the <em>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/em>&#8216;s e-edition <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nhl\/blues\/2019\/06\/09\/st-louis-post-dispatch-blues-stanley-cup\/1402597001\/\">prematurely congratulated the Blues<\/a> for winning the Stanley Cup, part of me says, <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/11\/that-time-i-jinxed-the-cubs\/\">there but for the grace of God go I<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the <em>Post-Dispatch<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/gatewayjr.org\/lee-scraps-post-dispatchs-copy-desk\/\">dispatched its copy desk earlier this year<\/a>, and the first apologetic tweet contained a common language error.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">In preparation for the outcome of the Stanley Cup Final, some of our readers got a sneak peak at what our advertisers are hoping to say to the Blues, the fans and St. Louis. We apologize for the sneak peak and hope to share their messages with everyone very soon!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; St. Louis Post-Dispatch (@stltoday) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stltoday\/status\/1137763854828658688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>(Later, repeated tweets saying the same thing did not have the same error.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the one hand, special sections must be set up ahead of time, mostly ready to go when the buzzer sounds or the final out is made. So, seeing that the St. Louis Post-Dispatch&#8216;s e-edition prematurely congratulated the Blues for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/06\/the-perils-of-preparation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11072"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11074,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11072\/revisions\/11074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}