{"id":1137,"date":"2016-10-15T18:41:11","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T22:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2016-10-15T18:41:11","modified_gmt":"2016-10-15T22:41:11","slug":"ledes-the-mind-bending-benedict-cumberbatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/ledes-the-mind-bending-benedict-cumberbatch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ledes \u2014 &#8220;The Mind-Bending Benedict Cumberbatch&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;When Benedict Cumberbatch was 19 years old, he got good and lost in the Himalayas. No longer a schoolboy in tailcoat and boater, not yet the internationally known star of Sherlock\u00a0and one of the world\u2019s most unlikely sex symbols, he had taken a gap year before university to get a glimpse of life beyond A-level exams and Sunday chapel.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is an example of a anecdotal lede. It continues on for a while, telling the story of a young Benedict Cumberbatch\u00a0teaching English to Tibetan monks and getting lost in the mountains near Kathmandu. This lede really drew me into the story for several reasons \u2014 one, I am a huge fan of Cumberbatch and had never heard the story they were sharing and, two, because it showed me that he was a bit of a thrill seeker, something I wouldn&#8217;t have known or expected. So, it told me something new about him and it shared something about his personality that I didn&#8217;t know before. I think that makes it a pretty great lede for a profile story. It does demand that I listen to it, just as Edward Murrow instructed Nancy Dickerson a lede should.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/2016\/10\/benedict-cumberbatch-cover-story\">Read the full story here if you enjoy laughing about the ridiculousness of the #Internet or just really, really want to know more about the Internet&#8217;s Boyfriend (aka Cumberbatch).\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;When Benedict Cumberbatch was 19 years old, he got good and lost in the Himalayas. No longer a schoolboy in tailcoat and boater, not yet the internationally known star of Sherlock\u00a0and one of the world\u2019s most unlikely sex symbols, he had taken a gap year before university to get a glimpse of life beyond A-level &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/ledes-the-mind-bending-benedict-cumberbatch\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ledes \u2014 &#8220;The Mind-Bending Benedict Cumberbatch&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2014,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-1137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-7","tag-lede"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Ndkv-il","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2014"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}