{"id":27,"date":"2004-02-14T12:35:12","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=27"},"modified":"2008-01-20T17:56:51","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T01:56:51","slug":"his-line-in-the-sand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/02\/14\/his-line-in-the-sand\/","title":{"rendered":"His line in the sand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Allaire offers these two candidates, mostly heard on<br \/>\nTV:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li>&#8220;So-and-so has <strong>drawn a line in the sand.<\/strong>&#8230;&#8221; I<br \/>\nthink this one started showing up more after George Bush actually<br \/>\nsaid it before the Gulf War. Now I can just about hear someone on<br \/>\na Sunday morning talkfest saying, &#8220;The Republicans have drawn<br \/>\na line in the sand on this issue.&#8221; It always reminds me of drawing<br \/>\nlines in the sand at the beach and watching the rising tide wash them<br \/>\naway. Maybe the phrase isn&#8217;t as meaningless as I thought, after all.<\/li>\n<li>Using individuals as if they were groups: &#8220;The Yankees have<br \/>\nhad a lot of strong players, <strong>your Babe Ruths<\/strong>, <strong>your Joe DiMaggios, your Mickey Mantles<\/strong>&#8230;.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doug Allaire offers these two candidates, mostly heard on TV: &#8220;So-and-so has drawn a line in the sand.&#8230;&#8221; I think this one started showing up more after George Bush actually said it before the Gulf War. Now I can just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/02\/14\/his-line-in-the-sand\/\">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":[3,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27"}],"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=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}