{"id":22713,"date":"2008-04-16T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-04-16T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/04\/16\/raymond-misreads-newspaper-headlines-episode-2\/"},"modified":"2008-04-16T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T10:00:01","slug":"raymond-misreads-newspaper-headlines-episode-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080416-01\/?p=22713","title":{"rendered":"Raymond misreads newspaper headlines, episode 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a strange tendency to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2008\/04\/04\/8355309.aspx\"> misread newspaper headlines<\/a>. This week, I read the headline <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/sports\/2004346229_apswmworldrecordmens200back.html\"> <i>Rogan Sets 200 Back World Record<\/i><\/a>, and I thought, &#8220;There&#8217;s a world record for running 200 meters backward?&#8221;\n Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recordholders.org\/en\/list\/backwards-running.html\"> actually there is<\/a>, but this article was actually about the 200 meter backstroke (swimming).<\/p>\n<p> Once I figured that out, I was not confused by the next headline: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/sports\/2004346258_apswmworldrecordmens100im.html\"> <i>Lochte Sets 100 IM World Record<\/i><\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a strange tendency to misread newspaper headlines. This week, I read the headline Rogan Sets 200 Back World Record, and I thought, &#8220;There&#8217;s a world record for running 200 meters backward?&#8221; Well, actually there is, but this article was actually about the 200 meter backstroke (swimming). Once I figured that out, I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-22713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I have a strange tendency to misread newspaper headlines. This week, I read the headline Rogan Sets 200 Back World Record, and I thought, &#8220;There&#8217;s a world record for running 200 meters backward?&#8221; Well, actually there is, but this article was actually about the 200 meter backstroke (swimming). Once I figured that out, I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}