{"id":268,"date":"2005-12-08T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-08T09:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=268"},"modified":"2005-12-08T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-08T09:05:00","slug":"and_the_winner_gasp_is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2005\/12\/and_the_winner_gasp_is\/","title":{"rendered":"And The Winner (Gasp) Is&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have noticed, I maintain an interest in what is happening in journalism. Quality of writing is a particular fascination. I&#8217;ve begun keeping a sort of journal of examples of writing and of broadcast speech. I may occasionally share an entry with you.<br \/>\nThe year is nearly over, so I think it is safe to declare a winner in the 2005 <em>Rifftides<\/em> everything-but-the-kitchen-sink-in-the-lead-sentence competition. No one&#8217;s going to top this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em><br \/>\nDecember 6, 2005<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Ed Masry, the flamboyant, crusading<br \/>\nenvironmental lawyer portrayed by<br \/>\nactor Albert Finney in the<br \/>\nmovie &#8220;Erin Brockovich,&#8221; which<br \/>\nwas based on Masry&#8217;s landmark<br \/>\n$333 million settlement against<br \/>\nPacific Gas &#038; Electric Co. for<br \/>\nground water contamination in<br \/>\nCalifornia&#8217;s high desert, has died.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you may have noticed, I maintain an interest in what is happening in journalism. Quality of writing is a particular fascination. I&#8217;ve begun keeping a sort of journal of examples of writing and of broadcast speech. I may occasionally share an entry with you. The year is nearly over, so I think it is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}