{"id":13,"date":"2004-02-14T12:08:59","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T17:08:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-01-20T18:13:11","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T02:13:11","slug":"scrambling-on-the-battle-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/02\/14\/scrambling-on-the-battle-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrambling on the battle lines"},"content":{"rendered":"

From Ian Trontz:<\/p>\n

\n
  • “Battle lines were drawn<\/strong>” to describe any controversy
    \n(sometimes preceded by “Tempers flared”).<\/li>\n
  • “Where<\/strong> (insert dominant local livestock<\/strong> here)
    \noutnumber humans<\/strong>” to describe any rural area.<\/li>\n
  • “Scrambling<\/strong>.” About half the nation’s newspapers
    \nmust have run stories following the aborted American Airlines strike
    \nthat read, “leaving the airline scrambling.” That would
    \ncause a disaster the likes of which the NTSB has never seen. The word
    \nnever again should appear outside of a football story.<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    From Ian Trontz: “Battle lines were drawn” to describe any controversy (sometimes preceded by “Tempers flared”). “Where (insert dominant local livestock here) outnumber humans” to describe any rural area. “Scrambling.” About half the nation’s newspapers must have run stories following … 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":[3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13"}],"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=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}