{"id":364,"date":"2006-07-11T13:44:57","date_gmt":"2006-07-11T18:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/granades.com\/2006\/07\/11\/the-onion-once-again-mistaken-for-reality\/"},"modified":"2006-07-11T13:50:40","modified_gmt":"2006-07-11T18:50:40","slug":"the-onion-once-again-mistaken-for-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=364","title":{"rendered":"The Onion Once Again Mistaken For Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/\">The Onion<\/a> is a satirical newspaper that is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.museumofhoaxes.com\/hoax\/weblog\/permalink\/glitter_lung\/\">occasionally<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/humor\/iftrue\/potter.htm\">mistaken<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/wired.com\/news\/culture\/0,1284,63048,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1\">for a<\/a> real news source. (Even by the <a href=\"http:\/\/liquidcourage.blogspot.com\/2002_10_01_liquidcourage_archive.html\">Arkansas Democrat-Gazette<\/a>, as can be seen at the bottom of the linked page.) Here recently they&#8217;ve been celebrating their tenth year online by re-running their favorite stories from each year on their front page. One article they re-ran was 1999&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/33680?issue=4227&#038;special=1999\">I&#8217;m Totally Psyched About This Abortion!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t you know it, but a blogger by the handle of &#8220;Pete&#8221; thought the article was real and <a href=\"http:\/\/marchtogether.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/murder-without-conscience.html\">railed against it in the anti-abortion blog <i>March Together For Life<\/i><\/a>. When plenty of people on both sides of the abortion issue pointed out that he&#8217;d been duped by The Onion&#8230;well, let&#8217;s just say that <a href=\"http:\/\/marchtogether.blogspot.com\/2006\/07\/satire.html\">his retraction was even funnier<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion is a satirical newspaper that is occasionally mistaken for a real news source. (Even by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, as can be seen at the bottom of the linked page.) Here recently they&#8217;ve been celebrating their tenth year online by re-running their favorite stories from each year on their front page. One article they &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/granades.com\/?p=364\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Onion Once Again Mistaken For Reality<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/granades.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}