{"id":63324,"date":"2016-02-04T08:29:43","date_gmt":"2016-02-04T13:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/?p=63324"},"modified":"2016-02-04T09:08:17","modified_gmt":"2016-02-04T14:08:17","slug":"explanation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2016\/02\/04\/explanation\/","title":{"rendered":"explanation?&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p align=\"justify\" class=\"small\">I signed up for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2015\/11\/03\/globe-owner-launches-stat-national-health-and-life-sciences-news-site\/jxObvL2S78o9qNWcvFq7lN\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">STAT<\/a> on the Boston Globe because Pharmalot moved there. But the new additions to the morning emails these last several days have given me pause. We could use an explanation&#8230;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"350\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/images\/stat.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<hr size=\"1\" \/>\n<div align=\"justify\" class=\"small\"><strong><font color=\"#200020\">UPDATE<\/font><\/strong>: Megan&#8217;s response to an email:  <\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div align=\"justify\">Hi Mickey,<\/p>\n<p>   They&#8217;re simply sponsors for the  newsletter &mdash; they&#8217;re paid advertisements that come from the business end  of the publication. I have nothing to do with them, don&#8217;t interact with  them, and they have no bearing on my content whatsoever. They started  showing up because the newsletter has been rolling for a few months now,  and in order to pay for the journalism we do, the business team needs  to create revenue through advertisements like all other publications.<\/p>\n<p>    Thanks,<br \/>    Megan<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I signed up for STAT on the Boston Globe because Pharmalot moved there. But the new additions to the morning emails these last several days have given me pause. We could use an explanation&#8230; UPDATE: Megan&#8217;s response to an email: Hi Mickey, They&#8217;re simply sponsors for the newsletter &mdash; they&#8217;re paid advertisements that come from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63324"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63324\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63335,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63324\/revisions\/63335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}