{"id":4974,"date":"2017-12-28T10:20:58","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T15:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=4974"},"modified":"2017-12-28T10:20:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T15:20:58","slug":"on-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/shared\/on-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"On The News"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\n  I&#8217;ve found that many of the &#8220;pressing&#8221; news stories can be treated like soap operas. Ignore most of the breathless reporting and check in on them once a week to see if Mary is still with Todd or if Elena survived that scary operation. Many of them, of course, can be ignored entirely.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.execupundit.com\/2017\/12\/news-noise.html#links\">Execupundit.com: News Noise<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is a perfect way to handle the news. Most of it is not important a few days later. And if it is, it&#8217;s a big enough story to have books written about it already (or there will be.) Those are the stories that change history and matter.<\/p>\n<p>Everything else is noise filling 24 hours of television.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found that many of the &#8220;pressing&#8221; news stories can be treated like soap operas. Ignore most of the breathless reporting and check in on them once a week to see if Mary is still with Todd or if Elena survived that scary operation. Many of them, of course, can be ignored entirely. Source: Execupundit.com: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Post - On The News","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[286],"tags":[97,1223,1222],"class_list":["post-4974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-shared","tag-news","tag-noise","tag-soap-opera","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4975,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4974\/revisions\/4975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}