{"id":31,"date":"2004-02-14T12:43:34","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T17:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=31"},"modified":"2008-01-20T17:50:30","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T01:50:30","slug":"flackery-gone-mad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/02\/14\/flackery-gone-mad\/","title":{"rendered":"Flackery gone mad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch Wagner can hack no more of the following from public relations flacks:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li>&#8220;(Whatever)<strong> just got easier<\/strong>.&#8221; as in: &#8220;Cleaning<br \/>\nviruses off your hard disk just got easier&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Taking (whatever) <strong>to its next level<\/strong>&#8221; as in: &#8220;Taking virus-scanning to its next level&#8230;&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<strong>Raising the bar<\/strong> on (whatever).&#8221; After we raise<br \/>\nthe bar we dance the limbo, and then we do the hokey-pokey and we<br \/>\nturn ourselves about. And that&#8217;s what it&#8217;s all about, hey.<\/li>\n<li>The company executive quote that starts, &#8220;We are proud to be<br \/>\nworking with XYZ Corp., an <strong>acknowledged market leader<\/strong>.&#8221;<br \/>\nThat&#8217;s a double-cliche there, &#8220;we are proud&#8221; and &#8220;market<br \/>\nleader.&#8221; The executive is sometimes &#8220;excited&#8221; rather<br \/>\nthan proud.<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitch Wagner can hack no more of the following from public relations flacks: &#8220;(Whatever) just got easier.&#8221; as in: &#8220;Cleaning viruses off your hard disk just got easier&#8230;&#8221; &#8220;Taking (whatever) to its next level&#8221; as in: &#8220;Taking virus-scanning to its &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/02\/14\/flackery-gone-mad\/\">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":[7,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31"}],"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=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}