{"id":356,"date":"2008-02-17T23:41:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-18T03:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=356"},"modified":"2008-02-17T23:42:08","modified_gmt":"2008-02-18T03:42:08","slug":"choice-of-synonyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=356","title":{"rendered":"Choice of Synonyms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/althouse.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/each-candidate-chooses-rule-at-moment.html\">Ann Althouse<\/a> writes of Sen. Charles Schumer:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He would not commit to any principle other than avoiding an &#8220;internecine&#8221; battle. Clearly, he came to Tim Russert&#8217;s table ready to use the word &#8220;internecine&#8221; to fend off efforts to get him to debate what the right rule is about the superdelegates and the Florida and Michigan delegates. I&#8217;m suspicious of people who suddenly start using and reusing a word that people don&#8217;t normally say. Schumer didn&#8217;t even know how to pronounce it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Too bad he didn&#8217;t use the word &#8216;intestine&#8217; instead &#8212; the rare adjective, I mean, not the common noun.  It would have reminded us all of what he&#8217;s full of.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann Althouse writes of Sen. Charles Schumer: He would not commit to any principle other than avoiding an &#8220;internecine&#8221; battle. Clearly, he came to Tim Russert&#8217;s table ready to use the word &#8220;internecine&#8221; to fend off efforts to get him to debate what the right rule is about the superdelegates and the Florida and Michigan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-orbilius","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","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=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}