{"id":8658,"date":"2014-03-05T08:50:18","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T16:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=8658"},"modified":"2014-03-03T12:08:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T20:08:57","slug":"20-years-ago-in-nexus-march-5-2014-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2014\/03\/05\/20-years-ago-in-nexus-march-5-2014-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>20 Years Ago In<\/em> Nexus: March 5, 2014 issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Correction&#8230; 20 years later:<\/b> Our March 21, 1994 issue had a familiar face in our <i>Speak Up <\/i>column: local politico Rob Fleming. But under his mug is the name \u201cRob Spector.\u201d Thinking we may have uncovered a political scandal, we got in touch with Fleming to find out if indeed he ever had a hush-hush name change. Nope: \u201cPerhaps a typo,\u201d says Fleming. So, consider this a correction from 20 years ago. Our apologies, Rob.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Nexus-14-4-cover-TREATED.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-8659 alignleft\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Nexus-14-4-cover-TREATED.jpg\" width=\"202\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Nexus-14-4-cover-TREATED.jpg 700w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Nexus-14-4-cover-TREATED-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Nexus-14-4-cover-TREATED-180x130.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 202px) 100vw, 202px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Enough with the exclamation marks!: <\/b>As anyone who has written for <i>Nexus<\/i> can attest, we\u2019re not huge on exclamation marks in journalism. I groaned out loud when I turned to page 7 in this issue and saw the following two headlines: \u201cBusiness division on the button!\u201d and \u201cPermaware not so permanent!\u201d Enough!<\/p>\n<p><b>Macrame?: <\/b>This issue\u2019s cover story and many of the other stories in it dealt with political correctness. A wide variety of opinion was given, some very politically correct, some&#8230; not so politically correct. But the most quotable was from our <i>Student Opinion<\/i> column, where writer Kait Burgan suggests, inexplicably, that people who read too much into things while being politically correct \u201cmust have better things to do with their time. If not, maybe they should take up macrame.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Correction&#8230; 20 years later: Our March 21, 1994 issue had a familiar face in our Speak Up column: local politico Rob Fleming. But under his mug is the name \u201cRob Spector.\u201d Thinking we may have uncovered a political scandal, we got in touch with Fleming to find out if indeed he ever had a hush-hush [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8659,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,123],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-columns","category-march-5-2014"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8660,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8658\/revisions\/8660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}