{"id":14981,"date":"2008-10-28T23:41:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-29T03:41:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=14981"},"modified":"2014-06-07T17:53:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-07T21:53:26","slug":"the-goon-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/28\/the-goon-show\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goon Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

I picked up a free copy of the Bethel Bulletin<\/i> at a truckstop during our New Jersey trip last weekend, and as I read the newspaper aloud to Irene while we continued our drive, its quirky headlines and leads kept cracking us up. <\/p>\n

I enjoyed its plainspoken prose. These editors don’t hold back in the slightest from letting you know exactly how they feel. <\/p>\n

Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n

PUNKS PILFER PURSE FROM VEHICLE<\/b>
\nGoons swiped a purse that was under the driver’s seat of a vehicle that was unlocked in the parking lot of …<\/i><\/p>\n

LOWLIFES DENT VEHICLE DOOR<\/b>
\nGoons dented the driver’s side door on a vehicle on …<\/i><\/p>\n

KNUCKLEHEADS STEAL DIRT BIKE<\/b>
\nLosers stole a dirt bike that was for sale … <\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The mix of lowlifes, goons, knuckleheads and punks kept us laughing, but the best headline added a pun to the mix, as follows:<\/p>\n

\"Buttheads\"<\/a>
\nKudos to the editors of the Bethel Bulletin<\/i> for putting their cards on the table and helping us to pass the time on a long trip!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I picked up a free copy of the Bethel Bulletin at a truckstop during our New Jersey trip last weekend, and as I read the newspaper aloud to Irene while we continued our drive, its quirky headlines and leads kept cracking us up. I enjoyed its plainspoken prose. These editors don’t hold back in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14983,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14981\/revisions\/14983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}