{"id":3267,"date":"2010-12-10T13:06:54","date_gmt":"2010-12-10T19:06:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=3267"},"modified":"2010-12-10T13:06:54","modified_gmt":"2010-12-10T19:06:54","slug":"the-mother-and-child-reunion-is-only-a-moment-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/?p=3267","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;the mother and child reunion is only a moment away&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m fond of well-done, innovative journalism. I like work that stretches the boundaries of traditional journalism, that breaks rules, that gets away from the inverted pyramid format.<\/p>\n<p>So I want to highlight <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-srv\/special\/metro\/facebook-story-mothers-joy-familys-sorrow.html?hpid=talkbox1\">this <strong>WP <\/strong>article<\/a>, which attempts to tell a story almost entirely through Facebook postings (with some annotation by the writer).<\/p>\n<p>(Warning: this story does not have a happy ending.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not sure how I feel about the story, though. On the one hand, I think it is an interesting departure from traditional journalistic forms. On the other hand, I have a lot of sympathy for the people in the comments who wonder a) why one family&#8217;s struggle, sad though it may be, deserves that much play, and b) why reprinting Facebook postings is considered &#8220;journalism&#8221;. Especially since the article doesn&#8217;t reveal much about peripartum cardiomyopathy; what causes this problem, how common is it, are there screening tests?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sad, but is it art? Especially compared to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/27\/AR2009022701549.html\">Fatal Distraction<\/a>&#8220;, the Gene Weingarten Pulitizer winner, which is equally sad, but also asks and tries to answer some important questions. (If you haven&#8217;t read &#8220;Fatal Distraction&#8221; and have missed my previous warnings: it is an extremely disturbing story, and you should think very carefully about whether you want to read it. <strong>Especially if you are a parent of small children.<\/strong>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m fond of well-done, innovative journalism. I like work that stretches the boundaries of traditional journalism, that breaks rules, that gets away from the inverted pyramid format. So I want to highlight this WP article, which attempts to tell a story almost entirely through Facebook postings (with some annotation by the writer). (Warning: this story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clippings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3268,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3267\/revisions\/3268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sportsfirings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}