{"id":563,"date":"2007-11-01T07:21:14","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T13:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/2007\/11\/01\/misleading-headline-alert-ap\/"},"modified":"2007-11-01T07:21:21","modified_gmt":"2007-11-01T13:21:21","slug":"misleading-headline-alert-ap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2007\/11\/misleading-headline-alert-ap\/","title":{"rendered":"Misleading Headline ALert\n    (AP)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.rd.yahoo.com\/dailynews\/rss\/topstories\/*http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20071101\/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi\/economy\">Consumer spending slows in September<br \/>\n(AP)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AP &#8211; Consumers, battered by a steep downturn in housing and a severe credit crunch, slowed spending growth in September to the weakest performance in three months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But in actuality, spending *grew* in September by 0.3%; the *rate* of growth is what dropped, since spending grew by 0.4% in the previous month. The article later mentions that inflation was up only 0.2% for September, that the previous week&#8217;s new unemployment claims dropped more than were expected, at that the rate of growth of the economy for the July-September quarter was 3.9%, stronger than expected.<\/p>\n<p>So, lots of good news, and the headline focuses where?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consumer spending slows in September (AP): AP &#8211; Consumers, battered by a steep downturn in housing and a severe credit crunch, slowed spending growth in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stupid-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-95","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}