{"id":182,"date":"2007-06-07T09:36:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-07T14:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=182"},"modified":"2007-06-07T09:36:40","modified_gmt":"2007-06-07T14:36:40","slug":"this-just-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2007\/06\/07\/this-just-in\/","title":{"rendered":"This just in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.chicagotribune.com\/news_columnists_ezorn\/2007\/06\/meet_the_new_cl.html\">Eric Zorn of the Chicago Trib  is told to give &#8220;kerfluffle&#8221; a rest.<\/a> And readers weigh in with tons more loathsome media utterances, most of which have been covered here, though this is a new one:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The one I hate is &#8220;<strong>decadent<\/strong>.&#8221; Why is it that this word is only used to describe chocolate? To prove my point, I just looked the word up on Answers.com and the sponsored links on the side were for brownies and chocolates. Are we really that unoriginal that we can&#8217;t think of any more than one use for a perfectly good adjective?<br \/>\n<P><br \/>\nHere&#8217;s the ironic part: &#8220;decadent&#8221; is defined as &#8220;self-indulgent.&#8221; In a society where half of us are 300 lb., oversized-SUV-driving, workaholic narcissists, there are oh so many many opportunities to use this word.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Zorn of the Chicago Trib is told to give &#8220;kerfluffle&#8221; a rest. And readers weigh in with tons more loathsome media utterances, most of which have been covered here, though this is a new one: The one I hate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2007\/06\/07\/this-just-in\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2007\/06\/07\/this-just-in\/\">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":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"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=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}