{"id":1017,"date":"2011-05-20T06:23:02","date_gmt":"2011-05-20T11:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=1017"},"modified":"2011-05-20T06:34:47","modified_gmt":"2011-05-20T11:34:47","slug":"metaphor-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=1017","title":{"rendered":"Metaphor Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm. Prof. Pecinovsky of the University of Missouri <a href=\"http:\/\/biggovernment.com\/driehl\/2011\/04\/26\/college-course-us-flag-is-racist-how-to-defeat-america-in-iraq-and-afghanistan\/\">thinks<\/a> (perhaps not quite the right verb) that the United States is &#8220;the belly of the beast&#8221; (&thorn; <a href=\"http:\/\/pajamasmedia.com\/instapundit\/121055\/\">InstaPundit<\/a>), yet he continues to live here, when there are undoubtedly other countries to which he could emigrate. If he chooses to live in the belly of a beast, and to accept sustenance from it (a salary paid for by the taxpayers of Missouri), doesn&#8217;t that make him a metaphorical tapeworm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hmmm. Prof. Pecinovsky of the University of Missouri thinks (perhaps not quite the right verb) that the United States is &#8220;the belly of the beast&#8221; (&thorn; InstaPundit), yet he continues to live here, when there are undoubtedly other countries to which he could emigrate. If he chooses to live in the belly of a beast, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orbilius","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1017"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1020,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1017\/revisions\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}