{"id":103,"date":"2004-03-03T22:09:28","date_gmt":"2004-03-04T03:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=103"},"modified":"2008-01-20T15:47:56","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T23:47:56","slug":"slip-sliding-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/03\/03\/slip-sliding-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Slip sliding away"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Mr. Mangan,<br \/>\nI&#8217;d like to propose for banishment the phrase &#8220;<strong>down a slippery slope<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Every time a progressive idea is put forward someone is bound to accuse the<br \/>\nproponent of &#8220;leading us down a slippery slope.&#8221;  Is there any other<br \/>\ndirection  to descend a slope that is slippery?<\/p>\n<p>My other, more recent,  peeve is the newer &#8220;<strong>it is what it is<\/strong>.&#8221;  Apparently this is used to excuse the speakers lack of insight to a given situation.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.novaktheblog.motime.com\">Sandy Novak<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Mangan, I&#8217;d like to propose for banishment the phrase &#8220;down a slippery slope.&#8221; Every time a progressive idea is put forward someone is bound to accuse the proponent of &#8220;leading us down a slippery slope.&#8221; Is there any other &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/03\/03\/slip-sliding-away\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}