{"id":395,"date":"2004-06-30T10:19:32","date_gmt":"2004-06-30T14:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/06\/30\/the-biggest-news-itemever\/"},"modified":"2004-06-30T10:19:32","modified_gmt":"2004-06-30T14:19:32","slug":"the-biggest-news-itemever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/2004\/06\/30\/the-biggest-news-itemever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest News Item&#8230;.EVER!!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a518'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>Matt and I were watching television last night and a special news bulletin popped on as &#8220;Breaking News&#8221;. Apparently, a moose was found roaming the streets of Wellesley and Natick (two suburbs of Boston).<\/P><br \/>\n<P>This is news? Even worse, I was watching NATIONAL news this morning (CBS Morning News) and even they did&nbsp;a little piece about it (with &#8220;amazing&#8221; video footage of a bored moose standing on grass near the woods).<\/P><br \/>\n<P>People, it&#8217;s a moose. This isn&#8217;t the first time this has happened. In fact, I recall a similar reaction a few years ago when a moose was found in the actual city of Boston (in&nbsp;the Brighton neighborhood). Even still, it&#8217;s not as if this moose was discovered by security guards&nbsp;riding an elevator up to the 60th floor of the Hancock Tower. That would be news. No, it was roaming a woodsy residential area west of Boston. How shocking. It&#8217;s not as if there aren&#8217;t signs posted in Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont that warn of moose (mooses? meese?). <\/P><br \/>\n<P>On a lighter note, I paid my annual life insurance premium today&#8230;so if I rent a car and get killed because I drove into a moose in the street (apparently, moose are a force to be reckoned with),&nbsp;at&nbsp;least I&#8217;ll be&nbsp;covered.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt and I were watching television last night and a special news bulletin popped on as &#8220;Breaking News&#8221;. Apparently, a moose was found roaming the streets of Wellesley and Natick (two suburbs of Boston). This is news? Even worse, I was watching NATIONAL news this morning (CBS Morning News) and even they did&nbsp;a little piece [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}