{"id":17927,"date":"2019-05-17T00:48:13","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T07:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17927"},"modified":"2019-05-17T00:48:13","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T07:48:13","slug":"more-about-colon-as-attribution-signifier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/05\/17\/more-about-colon-as-attribution-signifier\/","title":{"rendered":"More about colon-as-attribution-signifier"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>As I\u2019ve noted before (though possibly not here in Words & Stuff), I feel like the common practice of using a colon in a newspaper headline to indicate attribution can lead to amusing confusion.<\/p>\r\n<p>The latest example I\u2019ve come across isn\u2019t quite the same thing; instead of attribution per se, it\u2019s using a colon to separate the headline from the title of the regular feature. In particular, NPR has a blog called \u201cGoats and Soda\u201d (\u201ccovering health and all sorts of development around the world\u201d), and Google News tends to present articles from that blog by giving the title of the article, then a colon, then the title of the blog.<\/p>\r\n<p>Which often leads to entertaining results, like this recent headline:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>A Former Heroin Addict Runs A Rehab Center With A Different View Of Abstinence : Goats and Soda<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>I also see this sort of thing a lot in social media; for example, often a Tumblr post linked to from Facebook shows the title of the Tumblr instead of, or in addition to, information about the post being linked to, which is often confusing. But I don\u2019t have any examples handy offhand.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17927","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17928,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17927\/revisions\/17928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}