{"id":400,"date":"2004-04-23T10:13:03","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T14:13:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp\/2004\/04\/six_feet_under_eight_miles_hig\/"},"modified":"2004-04-23T10:13:03","modified_gmt":"2004-04-23T14:13:03","slug":"six_feet_under_eight_miles_hig","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/2004\/04\/six_feet_under_eight_miles_hig\/","title":{"rendered":"SIX FEET UNDER: Eight Miles High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/graphics7.nytimes.com\/images\/2004\/04\/23\/national\/casket.184.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"300\" align=\"left\" alt=\"Iraqi war dead\">The front page of Sunday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seattletimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">Seattle Times<\/A> featured a photo of coffins containing bodies of US soldiers being secured inside a cargo plane at Kuwait International Airport. Tami Silicio, a contractor who took the photo, was subsequently fired from her job.<BR><BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/04\/23\/national\/23PHOT.html\" target=\"_blank\">Here<\/A>&#8216;s a simple litmus test: papers that run this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/washington\/2004-04-22-pictures-pentagon_x.htm\" target=\"_blank\">photo<\/A> on the front page are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">good<\/A>. All <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\" target=\"_blank\">others<\/A> ought to be ashamed. Story continues with ST&#8217;s Air Force followup <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2001910594_pentagon23m.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/A>.<BR><BR>Can&#8217;t tell if the WPost<\/A> had any coffins on its front page, but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A34864-2004Apr22.html\" target=\"_blank\">story<\/> it ran did have a link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thememoryhole.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Memory Hole<\/A>, the site that ran pix in the first place (naturally, experiencing traffic clogs from all this).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The front page of Sunday&#8217;s Seattle Times featured a photo of coffins containing bodies of US soldiers being secured inside a cargo plane at Kuwait International Airport. Tami Silicio, a contractor who took the photo, was subsequently fired from her job. Here&#8216;s a simple litmus test: papers that run this photo on the front page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/riley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}