{"id":216,"date":"2003-11-26T12:46:30","date_gmt":"2003-11-26T17:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/a_holiday_tradition\/"},"modified":"2003-11-26T12:46:30","modified_gmt":"2003-11-26T17:46:30","slug":"a_holiday_tradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/a_holiday_tradition\/","title":{"rendered":"A Holiday Tradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving is still a day away, but already we&#8217;re in the midst of a holiday mainstay: <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=519&#038;e=1&#038;u=\/ap\/20031126\/ap_on_re_us\/thanksgiving_travel\">dramatic news coverage of people traveling<\/a>.  Unsatisfied by last year&#8217;s effort, news networks are re-doubling their efforts and are at again with footage of people lined up at airport counters and slow-moving traffic on the interstate.  With more live reports and better camera angles, this year could be big journalism&#8217;s finest hour.  Stay tuned.<br \/>\nI do have one suggestion on how they can bring us even closer to the action.  A few months ago when that hurricane hit the Carolina coast, I saw a fascinating report from a correspondent who was literal strapped to the back of a moving truck.  Rather than standing at the side of the highway, I think some embeded reporter should do the same thing and give us a live update from the back of a pickup plodding 25 m.p.h. down I-95.  That would help bring the story home.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/a_holiday_tradition\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to A Holiday Tradition\"><p>Thanksgiving is still a day away, but already we&#8217;re in the midst of a holiday mainstay: dramatic news coverage of people traveling. Unsatisfied by last year&#8217;s effort, news networks are re-doubling their efforts and are at again with footage of people lined up at airport counters and slow-moving traffic on the interstate. With more live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}