{"id":17590,"date":"2018-09-07T06:41:50","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T13:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17590"},"modified":"2018-09-07T06:41:50","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T13:41:50","slug":"dept-of-corrections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/09\/07\/dept-of-corrections\/","title":{"rendered":"Dept of Corrections"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I came across this wonderful correction on twitter:\r\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">A correction for the ages, by Brazilian news magazine Veja<br><br>&quot;The candidate likes to spend his free time reading Tolstoy, and not watching Toy Story, as originally reported&quot; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qKcKbsyFYw\">https:\/\/t.co\/qKcKbsyFYw<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Cleuci de Oliveira (@CLEUCl) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CLEUCl\/status\/1037877832578461697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 7, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote>\r\n\r\n<p>I probably shouldn\u2019t attempt to add anything to that, but I am reminded of a <cite>New York Times<\/cite> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1993\/05\/30\/style\/c-corrections-357093.html\">correction<\/a> from 1993:\r\n<blockquote><p>Because of a transmission error, an interview in the Egos &amp; Ids column on May 16 with Mary Matalin, the former deputy manager of the Bush campaign who is a co-host of a new talk show on CNBC, quoted her incorrectly on the talk show host Rush Limbaugh. She said he was \u201csui generis,\u201d not \u201csweet, generous.\u201d<\/blockquote>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I prefer the uncorrected version, myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-errors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17591,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17590\/revisions\/17591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}