{"id":136,"date":"2004-05-28T10:19:08","date_gmt":"2004-05-28T15:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=136"},"modified":"2008-01-20T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T22:54:00","slug":"like-when-blog-is-a-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/05\/28\/like-when-blog-is-a-verb\/","title":{"rendered":"Like when blog is a verb&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Egner despises:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;Hearts and minds&#8221;<\/strong><br \/>\nAny lazy use of a noun as a verb. (&#8220;<strong>Journal<\/strong>&#8221; is the most grating. I<br \/>\nblame Oprah for this one, though I&#8217;m not sure she&#8217;s responsible.)<\/p>\n<p>In music criticism:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<strong>Get<\/strong> (his\/her\/their\/your) _____ <strong>on<\/strong>&#8221; (ironic appropriations of hip-hop jargon make me want to bust a cap in hack critics)<\/li>\n<li> &#8220;<strong>Kick out the jams<\/strong>&#8220;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<strong>Party like its<\/strong> (year reflecting a specific musical era)&#8221; (e.g., a retro disco band &#8220;parties like it&#8217;s 1979.&#8221; a tired rip-off of Prince&#8217;s &#8220;1999&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>and, finally:<br \/>\n&#8220;<strong>decidedly mixed reviews<\/strong>&#8220;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeremy Egner despises: &#8220;Hearts and minds&#8221; Any lazy use of a noun as a verb. (&#8220;Journal&#8221; is the most grating. I blame Oprah for this one, though I&#8217;m not sure she&#8217;s responsible.) In music criticism: &#8220;Get (his\/her\/their\/your) _____ on&#8221; (ironic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/05\/28\/like-when-blog-is-a-verb\/\">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":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136"}],"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=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}