{"id":2255,"date":"2008-02-27T16:58:15","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T21:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/02\/27\/mom-reviews-gawker-finds-it-wanting\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T16:58:15","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T21:58:15","slug":"mom-reviews-gawker-finds-it-wanting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/02\/27\/mom-reviews-gawker-finds-it-wanting\/","title":{"rendered":"Mom reviews Gawker, finds it wanting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not my mother, of course &#8212; a freelance writer who was approached about a writing job at the flagship blog in Nick Denton&#8217;s sarcastic and bitchy media empire. He mentioned it to his mother, who <a href=\"http:\/\/ifightevil.tumblr.com\/post\/27419617\">summed up the site<\/a> far better than I&#8217;ve seen anyone else do, despite plenty of effort:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, I had more time to investigate this [name redacted].com. It seems to be a melange of stupid news that no sane person would peruse. Having said that, I can see it may be popular. Most of the comments I read were by people thinking they are too smart by half. So I presume their audience is 19-29 persons who think highly of themselves. You are probably perfect to write for this crowd.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Brilliant. You gotta love that last line too  \ud83d\ude42  Found (where else) at Gawker, where it was posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5003387\/so-mom-should-i-write-for-gawker\">none other than<\/a> the Dark Lord himself.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not my mother, of course &#8212; a freelance writer who was approached about a writing job at the flagship blog in Nick Denton&#8217;s sarcastic and bitchy media empire. He mentioned it to his mother, who summed up the site far better than I&#8217;ve seen anyone else do, despite plenty of effort: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Well, I had more &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2008\/02\/27\/mom-reviews-gawker-finds-it-wanting\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mom reviews Gawker, finds it wanting&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}