{"id":258,"date":"2004-05-11T06:27:00","date_gmt":"2004-05-11T06:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/11\/"},"modified":"2004-05-11T06:27:00","modified_gmt":"2004-05-11T06:27:00","slug":"258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/11\/258\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care much for a few of the words that writers seem to take pride in using. Here are a few that I just won&#8217;t ever use:<\/p>\n<p>Career as a verb, as in <i>&#8216;The car was careering wildly through the streets of downtown Auburn.&#8217;<\/i> If I ever go careering about, it will mean that I&#8217;m looking really hard for a job.<\/p>\n<p>Careening&#8230; see careering above. When I need to tip to the side, I&#8217;ll do so, thank you. I shan&#8217;t careen, as I might appear to some to be careering.<\/p>\n<p>Next is &#8216;rebuff&#8217;: If I ever do this, I won&#8217;t be snubbing you, I&#8217;ll just be polishing something for the second time.<\/p>\n<p>Redoubtable: Huh? Do I doubt this guy or not?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t care much for a few of the words that writers seem to take pride in using. Here are a few that I just won&#8217;t ever use: Career as a verb, as in &#8216;The car was careering wildly through the streets of downtown Auburn.&#8217; If I ever go careering about, it will mean that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2004\/05\/11\/258\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}