{"id":182959,"date":"2015-04-27T18:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T23:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/04\/27\/bad-day-at-the-office-14\/"},"modified":"2015-04-27T18:05:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T23:05:00","slug":"bad-day-at-the-office-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/04\/27\/bad-day-at-the-office-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Day at the Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/wp\/2015\/04\/27\/21-percent-of-republicans-want-to-take-military-action-against-iran-what\/\">one of the finest examples of a correction ever<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><i>Correction: This post initially attributed the song &#8220;Barbara Ann&#8221;  to The Beatles. It is, in fact, a Beach Boys song. The author of this  post would blame his relative youth, but as a fan of the oldies, this  would be dishonest.&nbsp;He would instead like to extend&nbsp;his sincerest  apology for this egregious error and promise that it will not be  repeated.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: blue;\"><i>Clarification: As <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EdMorrissey\/status\/592776380733116418\">Ed Morrissey notes<\/a>,  the song was originally written and sung by The Regents and later  covered by the Beach Boys. So the author of this post is clearly having  one of those days.<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>He was writing how bombing Iran is incredibly unpopular, even among Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>In the process, he writes about how McCain sang &#8220;Bomb Iran&#8221; to the tune of &#8220;Barbara Ann&#8221;, and completely screws up the provenance of the song.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, I reserve the, &#8220;Bad Day at the Office,&#8221; hed for vehicular crashes, but I think that Aaron Blake&#8217;s correction rated this title as well.<\/p>\n<p>H\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/jimromenesko.com\/2015\/04\/27\/washington-posts-correction-of-the-day\/\">Jim Romenesko<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is one of the finest examples of a correction ever: Correction: This post initially attributed the song &#8220;Barbara Ann&#8221; to The Beatles. It is, in fact, a Beach Boys song. The author of this post would blame his relative youth, but as a fan of the oldies, this would be dishonest.&nbsp;He would instead like &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1100,1034,1064,1098,1015],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-iran","category-media","category-war","category-weird"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182959"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}