{"id":4425,"date":"2013-09-11T23:51:30","date_gmt":"2013-09-12T06:51:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4425"},"modified":"2013-09-11T23:51:30","modified_gmt":"2013-09-12T06:51:30","slug":"sf-headlines-like-the-onion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4425","title":{"rendered":"SF Headlines like the Onion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thisamericanlife.org\/radio-archives\/episode\/348\/tough-room\">an episode of <i>This American Life<\/i><\/a> of the &#8220;Tough Room&#8221; at the Onion.  Although old, it reminds me of how much I spend scraping my words nowadays like <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/writers-on-writing\/af137d1f4369\">a recent piece I wrote at Medium<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At Berkeley, I desperately wanted to write at the campus newspaper <i>The Daily Cal<\/i> and the satirical weekly <i>The Heuristic Squelch<\/i><\/p>\n<p>But if I had to make a list of headlines speaking about life in San Francisco, what would they be?<\/p>\n<li>Fake cronut tricks local hipsters<\/li>\n<li>Karl the fog hurt by the sun<\/li>\n<li>Cyclists stop at a red light<\/li>\n<li>Mission hipsters tell new hip bakery to open in Oakland<\/li>\n<li>Google employees ask for shuttle stops on every city block in San Francisco<\/li>\n<li>Frank Chu decides only to appear at protests<\/li>\n<li>All stop signs removed by cyclists<\/li>\n<li>The fast food movement gains momentum<\/li>\n<li>Startup employee lives only on company snacks<\/li>\n<li>Golden Gate Bakery accepts orders only in Chinese<\/li>\n<li>Homeless man sells a cityshare bike for $100<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across an episode of This American Life of the &#8220;Tough Room&#8221; at the Onion. Although old, it reminds me of how much I spend scraping my words nowadays like a recent piece I wrote at Medium. At Berkeley, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/?p=4425\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-4425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4425"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4430,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4425\/revisions\/4430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/of.jennism.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}