{"id":8544,"date":"2011-03-30T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T16:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=8544"},"modified":"2011-03-30T10:44:52","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T14:44:52","slug":"at-least-they-got-his-name-right-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2011\/03\/30\/at-least-they-got-his-name-right-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"At least they got his name right, maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A very detailed apology from Britain&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/sol\/homepage\/hygiene\/home\/article190130.ece\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Sun<\/em><\/a> newspaper:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>IN an article published on The Sun website on January 27 under the headline &#8216;Gollum joker killed in live rail horror\u2019 we incorrectly stated that Julian Brooker, 23, of Brighton, was blown 15ft into the air after accidentally touching a live railway line.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>His parents have asked us to make clear he was not turned into a fireball, was not obsessed with the number 23 and didn\u2019t go drinking on that date every month.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Julian\u2019s mother did not say, during or after the inquest, her son often got on all fours creeping around their house pretending to be Gollum.<\/p>\n<p>Also, quotes from a witness should have been attributed to Gemma Costin not Eva Natasha. We apologise for the distress this has caused Julian\u2019s family and friends.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Bold in the original post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A very detailed apology from Britain&#8217;s The Sun newspaper: IN an article published on The Sun website on January 27 under the headline &#8216;Gollum joker killed in live rail horror\u2019 we incorrectly stated that Julian Brooker, 23, of Brighton, was blown 15ft into the air after accidentally touching a live railway line. His parents have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,28,237],"tags":[156,213],"class_list":["post-8544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-media","category-railways","tag-fail","tag-newspapers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-2dO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8545,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8544\/revisions\/8545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}