{"id":185,"date":"2007-08-04T07:43:37","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T12:43:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=185"},"modified":"2008-01-20T13:34:40","modified_gmt":"2008-01-20T21:34:40","slug":"must-every-task-be-grim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2007\/08\/04\/must-every-task-be-grim\/","title":{"rendered":"Must every  task be grim?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=78&#038;aid=127889\">Writing Tools author Roy Peter Clark thusly rants: <\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I heard it this morning while driving to work, as I knew I would. The radio reporter described the efforts of rescue workers to pull dead bodies out of crushed cars and out of the muck at the bottom of the Mississippi River. The failure of the bridge in Minneapolis at rush hour made this <strong>&#8220;grim task<\/strong>&#8221; necessary.<\/p>\n<p>There it was &#8212; the phrase &#8220;<strong>grim task<\/strong>.&#8221;  Let&#8217;s kill it along with its first cousin &#8220;grisly task.&#8221; I&#8217;ve heard it and read it for more than 30 years now, and it is more tired than ever. I&#8217;s appearance is so predictable that it has become, to borrow a phrase from George Orwell, a substitute for thinking. I would argue that at a time of death and destruction, the failure of writers to craft something original is a sign of disrespect.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Clark&#8217;s blog is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poynter.org\/column.asp?id=78\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writing Tools author Roy Peter Clark thusly rants: I heard it this morning while driving to work, as I knew I would. The radio reporter described the efforts of rescue workers to pull dead bodies out of crushed cars and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2007\/08\/04\/must-every-task-be-grim\/\">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\/185"}],"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=185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}