{"id":54,"date":"2005-12-13T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-13T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulgillin.com\/2005\/12\/prankster-unmasked.html"},"modified":"2005-12-13T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-13T13:54:00","slug":"prankster-unmasked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/prankster-unmasked\/","title":{"rendered":"Prankster unmasked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Tennessee man has admitted to posting a spurious biography of veteran editor John Siegenthaler, Sr. on Wikipedia.org. I described the incident in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gillin.com\/2005\/12\/character-assassination.html\">a post<\/a> about a week ago. There&#8217;s a story about the admission <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20051212\/ts_alt_afp\/usinternetitwikipedia_051212192227\">here<\/a>. Apparently, there was no harm intended. The story said the prankster changed the entry to play a trick on a co-worker, although why he chose Mr. Siegenthaler to be the victim isn&#8217;t explained. Wikipedia got a lot of grief over the incident and event went so far as to tighten its submission rules to prevent a recurrence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Tennessee man has admitted to posting a spurious biography of veteran editor John Siegenthaler, Sr. on Wikipedia.org. I described the incident in a post about a week ago. There&#8217;s a story about the admission here. Apparently, there was no &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/prankster-unmasked\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pTy95-S","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gillin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}