{"id":149382,"date":"2026-08-25T18:16:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/25\/briggs-mailbag-why-promotional-columns-are-usually-boring-indystar\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T18:16:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:16:00","slug":"briggs-mailbag-why-promotional-columns-are-usually-boring-indystar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/2026\/08\/25\/briggs-mailbag-why-promotional-columns-are-usually-boring-indystar\/","title":{"rendered":"Briggs&#8217; mailbag: Why promotional columns are usually boring &#8211; IndyStar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiywFBVV95cUxOUW9EcW15dWNQUnhSVXc3aTlMbEpCdjByRVJMT2FVRURRYWRkS214b2RQZWh5eEd0b1Z2OTJNOHk5SjdjXzNRX2ZOenhTY3pWazFCVUd5eG4yQjJEZFJjX1Z1WGlSUVVRMFR4dm1UVjdMQWM4OW15ZXV2bzFpclk2bFZiY0k0RFN4REtjRElVcXc0RGFTZHRTRXdIVUEzckxiN3huOW1EWmlicE5PejQyWl9STXBRSzgyeWdNV3N0bGZIbHBrZlRnQ1Rjcw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Briggs&#8217; mailbag: Why promotional columns are usually boring<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">IndyStar<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Briggs&#8217; mailbag: Why promotional columns are usually boring&nbsp;&nbsp;IndyStar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flamenet.io\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}