{"id":145,"date":"2009-11-21T09:02:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-21T16:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snowflyzone.com\/blog\/?p=145"},"modified":"2009-11-21T09:03:10","modified_gmt":"2009-11-21T16:03:10","slug":"welcome-madam-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowflyzone.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/21\/welcome-madam-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, madam, welcome."},"content":{"rendered":"

Palindrome visits Grand Rapids on the Going Rogue Bus.<\/p>\n

Where is Alanis Morissette when you need her? \u00a0From the windows of my apartment I can see three retirement homes, three buildings run by the rescue mission, and one scrap yard. \u00a0If the perpetual haze of West Michigan would have lifted this week I might have been able to see Sarah Palin, twenty miles away in Grand Rapids. \u00a0I was bombarded by local media channels informing me of the arrival of this exhausting “politician” for three straight days. \u00a0I tapped a note into my phone about her arrival and the embedded spelling program auto-corrected Palin to Palindrome. \u00a0Imagine the intellect embedded in a flurry of palindromes rolling up on a bus to taut a new book!<\/p>\n

Instead, a direct quote:<\/p>\n

“My husband is hunting and I have no responsibilities so I will head to Barnes and Noble at Midnight.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, I was peeled to the local news: hunting, husbands, responsibilities – the people camped out to see the woman that’s ruining female for me are a people-watchers dream. \u00a0The local news rolled its Econovan up to the Grand Rapids Barnes and Noble and interviewed these intellectuals for a few days in a row.<\/p>\n

\"Found

Found in the bathroom of a restaurant that I can also see from my window.<\/p><\/div>\n

Lately, I’ve been interested in WOODTV 8. \u00a0As social media channels allow me to self-tailor the content I consume to my needs, interests, and surroundings, the traditional local news has a chance to relate to its communities along relevant axes. \u00a0The demand for hyper-local news appears to be higher than ever. \u00a0If there is going to be a wooden shoe convention on my street this week (yes, it happens), I want to know about it. \u00a0If there is going to be a tomato throwing party on your street this week (it could happen), I don’t care as much. \u00a0But, the local news is getting trashy, turning tabloid. \u00a0Why can’t it respond, iterate on the same boring model that repeats the same sentence five times in a row for apparent gravitas?<\/p>\n

I’m staring out the window now, looking at MY missions, rest homes, and scrap metal. Is there a story there?<\/p>\n

I wish, madam, that you had written ‘rouge,’ not ‘rogue.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Palindrome visits Grand Rapids on the Going Rogue Bus. Where is Alanis Morissette when you need her? \u00a0From the windows of my apartment I can see three retirement homes, three buildings run by the rescue mission, and one scrap yard. \u00a0If the perpetual haze of West Michigan would have lifted this week I might have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[68,69,66,67],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experiences","category-midwest-letdowns","tag-journalism","tag-news","tag-palin","tag-palindrome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowflyzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowflyzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowflyzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowflyzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowflyzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowflyzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowflyzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowflyzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowflyzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowflyzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}