{"id":1076,"date":"2007-07-23T17:20:10","date_gmt":"2007-07-23T17:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1076"},"modified":"2007-07-23T17:20:10","modified_gmt":"2007-07-23T17:20:10","slug":"no_more_bat_boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/07\/23\/no_more_bat_boy\/","title":{"rendered":"No More Bat Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damn it! I just heard that the <i>Weekly World News<\/i> &#8212; that most outrageous of supermarket tabloids, the one which brings us vital updates on the impending end of the world as well as the latest adventures of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bat_Boy\">Bat Boy<\/a> &#8212; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediabistro.com\/fishbowlny\/newspapers\/weekly_world_news_killed_by_aliens_zombie_elvis_declining_circulation_63587.asp\">ceasing publication<\/a> in only a few short weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The WWN is utterly ridiculous, of course &#8212; is there <i>anyone<\/i>, even in the farthest reaches of the Ozarks, who actually believes anything they read in its pages? &#8212; but it&#8217;s always brought me some much-needed amusement as I stood in line at the checkout stand with the Muzak boring into my skull and my eyeballs burning from the flourescent overheads. I&#8217;m going to miss seeing which politicians are meeting with the aliens this month&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>One note of interest: the article I linked to above says that WWN &#8220;&#8230;was also known as a reliable source of paychecks for science fiction and fantasy writers looking to make a few extra bucks.&#8221; I always wondered where that stuff came from.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn it! I just heard that the Weekly World News &#8212; that most outrageous of supermarket tabloids, the one which brings us vital updates on the impending end of the world as well as the latest adventures of Bat Boy &#8212; is ceasing publication in only a few short weeks. The WWN is utterly ridiculous, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-and-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}