{"id":4456,"date":"2006-02-12T18:50:14","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T23:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4456"},"modified":"2024-10-27T17:46:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T21:46:20","slug":"telegrams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4456","title":{"rendered":"Telegrams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/02\/12\/weekinreview\/12word.html\">wonderful piece in the <i>New York Times <\/i>about telegrams.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my favorite one, but there are lots of funny ones in that article (and some not-so-funny ones &#8211; the SOS from the Titanic being the most chilling example):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The humorist Robert Benchley, arriving in Venice for the first time, cabled Harold Ross, editor of The New Yorker.<\/p>\n<p>STREETS FULL OF WATER. PLEASE ADVISE.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A wonderful piece in the New York Times about telegrams. Here&#8217;s my favorite one, but there are lots of funny ones in that article (and some not-so-funny ones &#8211; the SOS from the Titanic being the most chilling example): The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=4456\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4456"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":194930,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4456\/revisions\/194930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}