{"id":898,"date":"2007-01-05T10:11:47","date_gmt":"2007-01-05T15:11:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/?p=898"},"modified":"2007-01-05T10:11:47","modified_gmt":"2007-01-05T15:11:47","slug":"national-parks-traveler-gets-a-plug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/01\/05\/national-parks-traveler-gets-a-plug\/","title":{"rendered":"National Parks Traveler gets a plug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nationalparkstraveler.typepad.com\/national_parks_traveler\/\">Kurt<\/a> was one of the bloggers checking out the faulty claims that the Parks Service wasn&#8217;t letting its employees reveal the &#8220;true age&#8221; of the Grand Canyon.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2007\/1\/4\/201023\/6051\">Today he earned an atta-boy from Daily Kos,<\/a> the heaviest of the heavyweight anti-Bush bloggers.<br \/>\n<P>It&#8217;s worth noting that all Kurt did was what any responsible newsie would do: start calling people to track down the verity of a dubious claim making the rounds. Lots of bloggers ran with the rumor and now they&#8217;re looking like, well, bloggers. As Kos put it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just goes to show you have to be careful with what you run with, no matter how &#8220;true&#8221; is sounds and who is saying it. I really admire Kurt Repanshek&#8217;s patience in that regard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kurt did the unthinkable: waited till he had the whole story from multiple reliable sources. I know, boring as hell, old-media stuff that has the small advantage of being the right thing to do.   (Now let&#8217;s hope the Kos throngs don&#8217;t put Kurt over his bandwidth limit for the month).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kurt was one of the bloggers checking out the faulty claims that the Parks Service wasn&#8217;t letting its employees reveal the &#8220;true age&#8221; of the Grand Canyon. Today he earned an atta-boy from Daily Kos, the heaviest of the heavyweight&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/2007\/01\/05\/national-parks-traveler-gets-a-plug\/\">Read the whole thing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/twoheeldrive\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}