{"id":5420,"date":"2012-03-01T14:24:22","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T19:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/?p=5420"},"modified":"2012-03-01T14:24:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T19:24:22","slug":"communicating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/2012\/03\/communicating\/","title":{"rendered":"Communicating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5421\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5421\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Cover.small_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Cover.small_.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Cover.small\" width=\"100\" height=\"92\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5421\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5421\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil Blank<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nPart of the newspaper-editing job involves sorting through an increasingly clogged email inbox to separate the clutter from the stuff that we believe <em>Citizen<\/em> readers might be interested in.<!--more--> I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing those interests don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t include things like a $200 project management webinar or a press conference in Pennsylvania on Canadian homebuilding technology, but feel free to correct me if I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m wrong. <\/p>\n<p>Yes, my favorite public-relaters are now able to reach me and thousands of other members of the media with a single email, the rest of us are able to keep track of college buddies via social networking without ever having to exchange a single word, and the mean-tweeters are boldly becoming more aggressive, thanks to the screen they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re hiding behind. <\/p>\n<p>So this is a plea to come out from behind those computers. During the month of March, pick something awesome within these pages \u00e2\u20ac\u201c be it tracking down a hawk, checking out Tennis\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 show at <strong>Local 506<\/strong> or reveling in St. Paddy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Day celebrations \u00e2\u20ac\u201c call that Facebook friend, and get out there and do it. <\/p>\n<p>Take note, PR spammer from Michigan\u00c2\u00a0\u00e2\u20ac\u201c <em>Carrboro Citizen, The<\/em> is not interested in your motorcycle show. But you know who might be? Your local newspaper. You should give them a call.<br \/>\n<em>\u00e2\u20ac\u201cSusan Dickson<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Cover illustration by Phil Blank<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the newspaper-editing job involves sorting through an increasingly clogged email inbox to separate the clutter from the stuff that we believe Citizen readers might be interested in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[319],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5420"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5423,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5420\/revisions\/5423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/mill\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}