{"id":39,"date":"2004-02-14T13:04:49","date_gmt":"2004-02-14T18:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/?p=39"},"modified":"2008-01-20T17:39:52","modified_gmt":"2008-01-21T01:39:52","slug":"avoid-these-like-the-plague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/02\/14\/avoid-these-like-the-plague\/","title":{"rendered":"Avoid these like the plague"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Churchill sends these along:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An old news editor of mine (probably quoting a revered source) used<br \/>\nto tell us &#8220;Cliches should be avoided like the plague.&#8221; The cliches that irritate me:<\/p>\n<li>&#8220;Well positioned to take advantage of (an upturn in the economy)&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Captions reading &#8220;Blabla and blabla sharing a joke&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>People who have obviously been sacked &#8220;resigning to pursue<br \/>\nother interests.&#8221;Along with:<\/li>\n<li>Take no prisoners<\/li>\n<li>Given no quarter<\/li>\n<li>Worst-case scenario<\/li>\n<li>Mortifying experience<\/li>\n<li>Gets the nod<\/li>\n<li>Continue to monitor developments<\/li>\n<li>Showered with good wishes<\/li>\n<li>Brandishing a [sawn off shotgun]<\/li>\n<li>Went the extra mile<\/li>\n<li>Beyond his\/her wildest dreams<\/li>\n<li>A disaster waiting to happen<\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pat Churchill sends these along: An old news editor of mine (probably quoting a revered source) used to tell us &#8220;Cliches should be avoided like the plague.&#8221; The cliches that irritate me: &#8220;Well positioned to take advantage of (an upturn &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/2004\/02\/14\/avoid-these-like-the-plague\/\">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\/39"}],"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=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tommangan.net\/banned\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}