{"id":144,"date":"2007-03-28T05:40:51","date_gmt":"2007-03-28T10:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/144"},"modified":"2007-03-28T05:40:51","modified_gmt":"2007-03-28T10:40:51","slug":"the-headline-game-32807","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/archives\/144","title":{"rendered":"The Headline Game &#8211; 3\/28\/07"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real life or parody?  Sometimes, I can&#8217;t tell the difference anymore.  That&#8217;s when it&#8217;s time for <a href=http:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/the-headline-game\/>the Headline Game<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below are two headlines from CNN.com and two headlines from <em>The Onion<\/em>.  Can you spot which are the real headlines and which are the fakes?<\/p>\n<p>1. &#8216;Ask a Ninja,&#8217; OK Go win YouTube Awards<br \/>\n2. Injured troops request extended tours to avoid being sent to Walter Reed<br \/>\n3. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed confesses to confessing under torture<br \/>\n4. Oscar-nominated actor&#8217;s big love: Physics<\/p>\n<p>Note: Capitalization on the <em>Onion<\/em> headlines changed to match the style of CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Answers:  <a href=http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/TECH\/internet\/03\/26\/youtube.awards.ap\/index.html target=_blank>Story 1<\/a>, <a href=http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news_briefs\/injured_troops_request target=_blank>Story 2<\/a>, <a href=http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/news_briefs\/khalid_sheikh_mohammed target=_blank>Story 3<\/a>, <a href=http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2007\/SHOWBIZ\/Movies\/03\/27\/film.terrence.howard.ap\/index.html target=_blank>Story 4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>How did you do?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real life or parody? Sometimes, I can&#8217;t tell the difference anymore. That&#8217;s when it&#8217;s time for the Headline Game. Below are two headlines from CNN.com and two headlines from The Onion. Can you spot which are the real headlines and which are the fakes? 1. &#8216;Ask a Ninja,&#8217; OK Go win YouTube Awards 2. Injured [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headline-game"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shakespeareteacher.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}