{"id":321,"date":"2014-04-21T16:51:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T16:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gothamgroupllc.com\/?p=321"},"modified":"2023-11-27T14:15:30","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T14:15:30","slug":"remember-the-woman-burned-by-mcdonalds-coffee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gothamgroupllc.com\/?p=321","title":{"rendered":"Media Urban Myth Debunked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the woman who was burned by McDonald&#8217;s coffee and then sued and won?  Nearly 20 years ago and the myth lives on; a good example of why media training and specific goals are needed to control messages before the media takes erroneous reports and makes them legend. If you watch for about a minute starting at 4:35, you&#8217;ll see some horrible images &#8212; you are <strong>forewarned<\/strong> &#8212; and understand what the media didn&#8217;t report.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"entry-content-asset videofit\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Woman Burned by McDonald&#039;s Hot Coffee, Then the News Media | Retro Report | The New York Times\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pCkL9UlmCOE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Remember the woman who was burned by McDonald&#8217;s coffee and then sued and won? Nearly 20 years ago and the myth lives on; a good example of why media training and specific goals are needed to control messages before the media takes erroneous reports and makes them legend. If you watch for about a minute&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gothamgroupllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gothamgroupllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gothamgroupllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gothamgroupllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gothamgroupllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gothamgroupllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/gothamgroupllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gothamgroupllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gothamgroupllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gothamgroupllc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}