{"id":260,"date":"2016-11-22T09:14:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T15:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/?p=260"},"modified":"2023-02-20T11:21:11","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T17:21:11","slug":"professional-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2016\/11\/22\/professional-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Professional Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professional _ an adjective _ frequently used _ in contexts often quite random.<br \/>\nAnd examples do show, that even the pros, can blow stories with reckless abandon.<br \/>\nDays before the election a speech in New Hampshire offers another example.<br \/>\nThe candidate spoke, was shrugged off as a joke, the blurred thinking of pros quite ample.<br \/>\nThe speech was profound, quite calm and insightful, the future it was to portend.<br \/>\nBut the pros were all stuck, in biased calcified muck, again failed their jobs to attend.<br \/>\nThe pros instead covered a brief letter from Bill the candidate shared with the crowd.<br \/>\nThe pros all so focused, as a swarm of mad locusts, on this letter that was read aloud.<\/p>\n<p>It took only a minute, the letter&#8217;s reading was over and the candidate went to his speech.<br \/>\nBut the pros didn&#8217;t care, to report what was fair, they ignored what the candidate preached.<br \/>\nBut oh what a sermon preached in New Hampshire to the voters of which there were legions.<br \/>\nIt clearly laid out, the cause of the rout, understood only by non-coastal regions.<br \/>\nOne might humbly suggest to pros still befuddled on results of the recent election.<br \/>\nGet into some lernin&#8217;, and study that sermon, we&#8217;ll all hope you can make a connection.<\/p>\n<p>(The Random Poet:111816<br \/>\nwww.therandompoet.com)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professional _ an adjective _ frequently used _ in contexts often quite random. And examples do show, that even the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/2016\/11\/22\/professional-journalism\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Professional Journalism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-2016-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3058,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260\/revisions\/3058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.therandompoet.com\/poems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}