{"id":164,"date":"2005-02-01T19:57:51","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T00:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=164"},"modified":"2008-01-20T14:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T22:05:00","slug":"how-clever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2005\/02\/01\/how-clever\/","title":{"rendered":"How clever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Hunter shares these irksome UK expressions: <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;<b>It&#8217;s not big, and it&#8217;s not clever<\/b>,&#8221; so goes the cliche, but it doesn&#8217;t bother me quite so much as its mutations do:\n<\/li>\n<li><b>&#8220;It is big, and it is clever<\/b>,&#8221; is often heard during TV show about cars.\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<b>It&#8217;s not big, but it&#8217;s certainly clever<\/b>,&#8221; is often found in reviews about pocket-sized, Japanese gadgets.\n<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<b>It may be big, but it&#8217;s certainly not clever<\/b>,&#8221; is often used to describe school bullies, gorillas and anything else that is large and never graduated high school.\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Hunter shares these irksome UK expressions: &#8220;It&#8217;s not big, and it&#8217;s not clever,&#8221; so goes the cliche, but it doesn&#8217;t bother me quite so much as its mutations do: &#8220;It is big, and it is clever,&#8221; is often heard &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2005\/02\/01\/how-clever\/\">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\/164"}],"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=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}