{"id":193839,"date":"2008-11-13T00:06:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-13T05:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/13\/good-prank\/"},"modified":"2008-11-13T00:06:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T05:06:00","slug":"good-prank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/13\/good-prank\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Prank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like a bunch of pranksters created a phony <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">New York Times<\/span>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/11\/12\/pranksters-spoof-the-times\/\">handed it out in major cities<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>The Associated Press reported that copies of the spoof paper were also handed out in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, and that the pranksters \u2014 who included a film promoter, three unnamed Times employees and Steven Lambert, an art professor \u2014 financed the paper with small online contributions and created the paper to urge President-elect Barack Obama to keep his campaign promise<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img145.imageshack.us\/img145\/3157\/12times4806030997rh1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The usual suspects for organizing this are the Yes Men, and there <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes-se.com\/\">is a web page<\/a>,  which, at least for me, is not that Firefox friendly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it looks like a bunch of pranksters created a phony New York Times, and handed it out in major cities: The Associated Press reported that copies of the spoof paper were also handed out in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Philadelphia and Washington, and that the pranksters \u2014 who included a film promoter, three &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,1100,1064],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-funny","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193839"}],"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=193839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}