{"id":733,"date":"2006-07-27T00:21:41","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T00:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/ifbookblog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2006-07-27T00:21:41","modified_gmt":"2006-07-27T00:21:41","slug":"wikipedia_lampooned_in_onion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/2006\/07\/27\/wikipedia_lampooned_in_onion\/","title":{"rendered":"wikipedia lampooned in onion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/50902\">takes a shot<\/a> at Wikipedia this week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Wikipedia, the online, reader-edited encyclopedia, honored the 750th anniversary of American independence on July 25 with a special featured section on its main page Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not bad, though it kinda beats the Wikipedia-is-error-prone point into the ground. But the fact that it&#8217;s being satirized says something.<br \/>\nNaturally, the piece has already been noted on Wikipedia&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Onion\">article<\/a> on The Onion. The talk page <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Talk:The_Onion#Wikipedia_makes_The_Onion\">points<\/a> to another, funnier, wiki-themed &#8220;news brief&#8221; from last September: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/node\/40990\">Congress Abandons WikiConstitution<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Onion takes a shot at Wikipedia this week: Wikipedia, the online, reader-edited encyclopedia, honored the 750th anniversary of American independence on July 25 with a special featured section on its main page Tuesday. Not bad, though it kinda beats the Wikipedia-is-error-prone point into the ground. But the fact that it&#8217;s being satirized says something. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[822,1353,1648,1861,2016],"tags":[3066],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-onion","category-satire","category-the_networked_book","category-wikipedia","tag-wikipedia-onion-satire-history-the_networked_book"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futureofthebook.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}