{"id":152,"date":"2004-11-21T19:07:06","date_gmt":"2004-11-22T00:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-01-20T14:22:25","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T22:22:25","slug":"premier-pestilence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/11\/21\/premier-pestilence\/","title":{"rendered":"Premier pestilence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curtiss Pernice suggests these additions:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li> <strong>Premier<\/strong>. &#8220;So and so&#8221; is a premier speaker, a premier stunt skateboarder and a premier yo yo champion who runs a premier vinyl repair business. Journalists apply this word to too many people in too many situations in an attempt to<br \/>\nassign a sense of importance to their subjects.<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Unceremoniously<\/strong>. After working in the mail room for 4 years, Joe was unceremoniously fired by his boss. I&#8217;ve never heard of anyone being ceremoniously fired. Have you?<\/li>\n<li> <strong>Last Bastion<\/strong>. Who in the hell uses the word &#8220;bastion&#8221; these days? Well, nearly every American journalist does when he or she, serving the purposes of the news story, is speaking about a group of people holding traditions or modes of thought perceived to be archaic or pass<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curtiss Pernice suggests these additions: Premier. &#8220;So and so&#8221; is a premier speaker, a premier stunt skateboarder and a premier yo yo champion who runs a premier vinyl repair business. Journalists apply this word to too many people in too &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/11\/21\/premier-pestilence\/\">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\/152"}],"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=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}