{"id":121,"date":"2004-04-01T08:10:34","date_gmt":"2004-04-01T13:10:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=121"},"modified":"2008-01-20T15:18:14","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T23:18:14","slug":"on-the-eve-of-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/04\/01\/on-the-eve-of-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"On the eve of forever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Terry Murray of The Medical Post in Toronto offers:<\/p>\n

Here’s the overworked cliche (mostly heard in TV news) I love to hate: something “changed his life forever<\/strong>” (and variations thereupon). “Forever” is a long time, and usually these statements are made well before the end of “forever.”<\/p>\n

When I worked for the Globe and Mail’s Report on Business here in Toronto, back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and Grover Cleveland was president, we weren’t allowed to use “all-time<\/strong>,” as in “the stock his an all-time high,” for the same reason – “all time” wasn’t over yet.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Terry Murray of The Medical Post in Toronto offers: Here’s the overworked cliche (mostly heard in TV news) I love to hate: something “changed his life forever” (and variations thereupon). “Forever” is a long time, and usually these statements are … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"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=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}