{"id":231,"date":"2006-06-14T09:44:33","date_gmt":"2006-06-14T14:44:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=231"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:47:01","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:47:01","slug":"unfortunate-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=231","title":{"rendered":"Unfortunate Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reporting on a Hillary speech in <em>Reason<\/em>, David Weigel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/hitandrun\/2006\/06\/hillarymania.shtml\">writes<\/a> &#147;she continues elucidating her non-position on the war, almost feeding off the angry rump of activists&#148;. A political journalist should never <em>ever<\/em> use &#147;rump&#148; (&#147;angry&#148; or otherwise) as the direct object of &#147;feeding off&#148;. Too many readers will find their thoughts led down paths they do not wish to travel. At best, they will be reminded of restaurants like <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/asia-pacific\/4570901.stm\">this one<\/a>, where customers eat sushi served on naked women (though not on their rumps, to judge by the picture &#8212; possibly NSFW). At worst, they may be given an unwanted image of a cannibal Hillary leaping into the audience to feed on an activist&#8217;s plump rump like a lion in a herd of zebras. Perhaps I&#8217;m verbally oversensitive, but I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;m not the only one. (&thorn; John Podhoretz in <a href=\"http:\/\/corner.nationalreview.com\/post\/?q=MzY1MzkyOTVmM2U1MDdmMTgxNjQxMWE1MzdlMjlmOTg=\">The Corner<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporting on a Hillary speech in Reason, David Weigel writes &#147;she continues elucidating her non-position on the war, almost feeding off the angry rump of activists&#148;. A political journalist should never ever use &#147;rump&#148; (&#147;angry&#148; or otherwise) as the direct object of &#147;feeding off&#148;. Too many readers will find their thoughts led down paths they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231","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\/231","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=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}