{"id":911,"date":"2009-11-05T14:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/11\/05\/the-worlds-only-reliable-newspaper\/"},"modified":"2009-11-05T14:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-05T22:08:00","slug":"the-worlds-only-reliable-newspaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2009\/11\/05\/the-worlds-only-reliable-newspaper\/","title":{"rendered":"The World&#8217;s Only Reliable Newspaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not talking about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/\"><span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Onion<\/span><\/a>; I&#8217;m talking about <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">Weekly World News<\/span>.  <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">The Onion<\/span> is &#8220;America&#8217;s Finest News Source.&#8221;  <a href=\"http:\/\/weeklyworldnews.com\/\">WWN<\/a> is &#8220;the World&#8217;s Only Reliable Newspaper.&#8221;  Get it straight.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the good news is, you can now read back issues of WWN&#8217;s print edition (and several other magazines) on <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/googlebooks\/agreement\/\">Google Books<\/a>.  The bad news is, the WWN archives only span from <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=b-8DAAAAMBAJ&amp;rview=1&amp;source=gbs_all_issues_r&amp;cad=1\">January, 1981<\/a>, to <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=5vQDAAAAMBAJ&amp;rview=1&amp;source=gbs_all_issues_r&amp;cad=1\">August, 2007<\/a>.  You could go to their web site, but it&#8217;s just not the same.  Call me old-fashioned, but there is a certain charm to the badly Photoshopped black-and-white tabloid layout.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/snout.org\/HotSheet\/CKL.jpg\" alt=\"CKL\" title=\"CKL\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, I&#8217;m not talking about The Onion; I&#8217;m talking about Weekly World News. The Onion is &#8220;America&#8217;s Finest News Source.&#8221; WWN is &#8220;the World&#8217;s Only Reliable Newspaper.&#8221; Get it straight. Anyway, the good news is, you can now read back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[84,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-zombies"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}