{"id":8159,"date":"2014-02-03T05:04:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T05:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/03\/lede-or-lead\/"},"modified":"2014-02-03T05:04:58","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T05:04:58","slug":"lede-or-lead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/03\/lede-or-lead\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Lede&#8217; or &#8216;Lead&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Why do some journalists use &#39;lede&#39; instead of &#39;lead&#39;?&#0160; I don&#39;t know.&#0160; A lede is &quot;the introductory section of a news story that is intended to entice the reader to read the full story.&quot;&#0160; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/lede\" target=\"_self\">Merriam-Webster<\/a>)&#0160; The same source claims that the first known use was in 1976.&#0160; Why the innovation? Just to be cute or &#39;different&#39;?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/howardowens.com\/2011\/09\/18\/lede-vs-lead\/\" target=\"_self\">Here<\/a> we read that &#39;lede&#39; is an invention of linotype romanticists and does not come from the linotype era.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Why do I blog about such a bagatelle?&#0160; To fix in my memory this word I learned just this morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The uses of blogging are many.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do some journalists use &#39;lede&#39; instead of &#39;lead&#39;?&#0160; I don&#39;t know.&#0160; A lede is &quot;the introductory section of a news story that is intended to entice the reader to read the full story.&quot;&#0160; (Merriam-Webster)&#0160; The same source claims that the first known use was in 1976.&#0160; Why the innovation? Just to be cute or &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/02\/03\/lede-or-lead\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Lede&#8217; or &#8216;Lead&#8217;?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[109,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}