{"id":474,"date":"2008-02-13T16:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/02\/the-end-of-the-strike.html"},"modified":"2008-02-13T16:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T16:42:00","slug":"the-end-of-the-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/omeoflittlefaith\/2008\/02\/the-end-of-the-strike.html","title":{"rendered":"The End of the Strike"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been keeping up<\/span> with the Writer’s Guild strike fairly closely over the last three months, primarily because 1) I’m a writer, though I’m not in the guild, and 2) because I seriously wanted to know when I would get to watch a new episode of “The Office.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Yay! Finally the strike is over<\/a>.<\/p>\n

That said, I was reminded (ironically) of the value of good writing when I saw this headline on Yahoo today:<\/p>\n

Writers end strike; now they must write<\/a><\/p>\n

That? Is some brilliant headline writing right there. It makes me wonder whether Yahoo! has a template for headlines touting the ends of strikes. Like a headline version of Mad Libs, I imagine it looks like this:<\/p>\n

[Plural noun] <\/span>end strike; now they must<\/span> [verb form of previously mentioned noun]<\/span><\/div>\n

So this is what you might get from Yahoo! headline writers at the close of other strikes:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2022 Meat packers end strike; now they must pack meat<\/p>\n

\u2022 Financial planners end strike; now they must plan finances<\/p>\n

\u2022 Welders end strike; now they must weld<\/p>\n

\u2022 Slaughterhouse employees end strike; now they must slaughter<\/p>\n

\u2022 Astronomers end strike; now they must, um…<\/p>\n

(It doesn’t work across the board.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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