{"id":679,"date":"2007-08-07T20:52:55","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T03:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=679"},"modified":"2007-12-08T15:33:47","modified_gmt":"2007-12-08T22:21:47","slug":"the-book-that-launched-me-into-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=679","title":{"rendered":"The Book That Launched Me Into Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read it thoroughly during the first few months of 1980 (the end of eighth grade) &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/search-handle-url\/102-6767573-7143358?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;search-type=ss&amp;index=books&amp;field-author=Melvin%20Mencher\">Melvin Mencher<\/a>&#8216;s &quot;News Reporting and Writing.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>I was relieved that this was a profession that did not require me to get good grades.<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukeford.net\/luke_ford\/bio\/l2.html\">At the time<\/a> I was distressed that I could not become president of the United States due to being born in Australia and that I could not become a great marathoner because of my bumb knees.)<\/p>\n<p>Tuesday evening I read about Mencher in a dull <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Pulitzers-School-Universitys-Journalism-1903-2003\/dp\/0231130902\/ref=sr_1_6\/102-6767573-7143358?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1186545736&amp;sr=1-6\">corporate history of Columbia University&#8217;s School of Journalism<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The memories of Melvin&#8217;s book flooded back (I couldn&#8217;t forget the unfortunate name Melvin).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure Mel&#8217;s very proud of me.<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read it thoroughly during the first few months of 1980 (the end of eighth grade) &#8212; Melvin Mencher&#8216;s &quot;News Reporting and Writing.&quot; I was relieved that this was a profession that did not require me to get good grades. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=679\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}