{"id":156,"date":"2008-08-28T06:35:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T06:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/?p=156"},"modified":"2008-08-28T06:44:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T06:44:51","slug":"mad-lib-headlines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/08\/28\/mad-lib-headlines\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad Lib Headlines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, on the front page of Yahoo, I was scanning headlines and saw:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/nm\/20080827\/od_uk_nm\/oukoe_uk_cambodia_rats\">Price of rat meat quadruples in Cambodia as inflation bites<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow. Slow news day I guess. I&#8217;m sorry if you live in Cambodia and like yummy rats. I really am. But this headline sounds like it came straight out of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mad_Libs\">Mad Libs<\/a> book!<\/p>\n<p>Price of _________________ (an animal)<br \/>\n__________________________ (a multiplier)<br \/>\nin ________________________ (a foreign country)<br \/>\ndue to ____________________ (a negative event).<\/p>\n<p>You might end just as easily have ended up with:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Price of hamsters doubles in Canada due to power shortage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>or<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Price of rubber duckies in Botswana triples due to flooding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, on the front page of Yahoo, I was scanning headlines and saw: Price of rat meat quadruples in Cambodia as inflation bites Wow. Slow news day I guess. I&#8217;m sorry if you live in Cambodia and like yummy rats. I really am. But this headline sounds like it came straight out of a Mad &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/2008\/08\/28\/mad-lib-headlines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mad Lib Headlines&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":159,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/moscowcoffeereview.com\/carpecakem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}