{"id":128,"date":"2004-05-04T08:09:10","date_gmt":"2004-05-04T13:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=128"},"modified":"2008-01-20T15:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T23:14:00","slug":"dust-in-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/05\/04\/dust-in-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Dust in the wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Marzahl suggests:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As an editor at Agence France-Presse, I frequently run into the word<br \/>\n&#8220;<strong>dusty<\/strong>&#8220;, usually used to describe a town or village where not much is going<br \/>\non and is rather run-down. Inevitably it&#8217;s a place in the Third World or<br \/>\ndeveloping world&#8230; I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;d be a lot of people who would<br \/>\ndescribe a small Bavarian village or an English hamlet as dusty. So it&#8217;s the<br \/>\nTubmanburgs in Liberia, or Bunias in DRCongo that get labeled as such&#8230;<br \/>\ncarrying with it a whiff of condescension.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Banned for life? I&#8217;m not sure. But dusty should be used with <em>extreme<\/em> care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Marzahl suggests: As an editor at Agence France-Presse, I frequently run into the word &#8220;dusty&#8220;, usually used to describe a town or village where not much is going on and is rather run-down. Inevitably it&#8217;s a place in the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/05\/04\/dust-in-the-wind\/\">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":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128"}],"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=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}