{"id":1160,"date":"2016-10-17T22:55:17","date_gmt":"2016-10-18T02:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/?p=1160"},"modified":"2016-10-18T13:12:56","modified_gmt":"2016-10-18T17:12:56","slug":"lede-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/lede-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Lede"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I chose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/10\/02\/world\/americas\/inside-a-dysfunctional-psychiatric-hospital.html?smid=fb-share&amp;_r=0\" target=\"_blank\">Inside Venezuela&#8217;s Crumbling Mental Hospitals <\/a> for my story lede. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The state-run psychiatric hospital here in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, has long been a forgotten place, filled with forgotten people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It continues: <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But with Venezuela suffering from a severe economic crisis, this mental institution has almost no drugs to control the afflictions tormenting its patients.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a solid lede. It certainly made me want to continue and it set a chilling tone for the rest of the article. <\/p>\n<p>The reason I particularly appreciate this lede is the way it fits in the context of the larger article. In a story that literally details a patient eating another patient&#8217;s nose, starving mentally ill patients, and delusional, weeping, schizophrenic grandmothers &#8212; it would be cheap and easy journalism to pick the most gruesome detail and make it the lede. The writers (Kohut and Casey) instead fittingly focused on the systemic problems of a government too corrupt to accept foreign aid, and a vulnerable populace society would rather forget than take care of. The story isn&#8217;t about a nose being bitten off (though the picture will haunt you for weeks). It&#8217;s about the state-run hospitals from hell. It&#8217;s not a flashy lede, but it&#8217;s a lede that dares you to keep reading, or otherwise confront the uncomfortable truth of your own apathy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I chose Inside Venezuela&#8217;s Crumbling Mental Hospitals for my story lede. &#8220;The state-run psychiatric hospital here in Barquisimeto, Venezuela, has long been a forgotten place, filled with forgotten people.&#8221; It continues: &#8220;But with Venezuela suffering from a severe economic crisis, this mental institution has almost no drugs to control the afflictions tormenting its patients.&#8221; It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/lede-3\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lede<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2037,"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":true,"_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-1160","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-iI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160","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\/2037"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ctlsites.uga.edu\/magwriting\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}