{"id":162,"date":"2005-01-26T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2005-01-26T15:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=162"},"modified":"2008-01-20T14:40:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T22:40:52","slug":"a-few-quickies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2005\/01\/26\/a-few-quickies\/","title":{"rendered":"A few quickies"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Mark hates &#8220;<strong>early on<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gordon says: I just saw your pages on cliches. The most useless one I&#8217;ve ever heard is &#8220;<strong>at this point in time<\/strong>&#8220;.  Five words when one is sufficient; &#8216;now&#8217;, or if necessary, &#8216;right now&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Ben contributes: &#8220;<strong>Reads like a thriller<\/strong>&#8221; in book reviews to describe any popular science book.<\/p>\n<p>Edgar avers: After working in four TV newsrooms, I hated when an anchor would utter the words &#8220;<strong>parent&#8217;s worst nightmare<\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark hates &#8220;early on&#8221; Gordon says: I just saw your pages on cliches. The most useless one I&#8217;ve ever heard is &#8220;at this point in time&#8220;. Five words when one is sufficient; &#8216;now&#8217;, or if necessary, &#8216;right now&#8217;. Ben contributes: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2005\/01\/26\/a-few-quickies\/\">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":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162"}],"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=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}