{"id":232,"date":"2006-06-27T22:22:59","date_gmt":"2006-06-28T03:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=232"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:46:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:46:36","slug":"bad-metaphor-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Bad Metaphor Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blogger known as &#8216;Billmon&#8217; really ought to try his hand at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bulwer-lytton.com\/\">Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest<\/a>.  In a <a href=\"http:\/\/billmon.org\/archives\/002482.html\">post<\/a> published yesterday, he wrote that Kos&#8217;s recent book &#8220;took a sawed off shotgun to the leeches attached to the Democratic Party&#8217;s flabby underbelly&#8221;.  I don&#8217;t doubt that a sawed-off shotgun would be a very effective way to kill leeches, but wouldn&#8217;t it also kill or maim the owner of the flabby underbelly to which the leeches were attached? Perhaps Billmon is hinting that he &#8212; or Kos &#8212; is willing to kill the Democratic Party in order to save it from the &#8216;leeches&#8217;. Then again, perhaps he thinks of Kos as a microscopic warrior blasting leeches one by one with a microscopic shotgun, in a demented parody of <em>Fantastic Voyage<\/em>. Either way, this has to be one of the worst metaphors ever written &#8212; satirical examples excepted, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blogger known as &#8216;Billmon&#8217; really ought to try his hand at the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest. In a post published yesterday, he wrote that Kos&#8217;s recent book &#8220;took a sawed off shotgun to the leeches attached to the Democratic Party&#8217;s flabby underbelly&#8221;. I don&#8217;t doubt that a sawed-off shotgun would be a very effective way [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-orbilius","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232","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=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}