{"id":11290,"date":"2010-06-07T07:36:47","date_gmt":"2010-06-07T12:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11290"},"modified":"2010-06-07T07:46:20","modified_gmt":"2010-06-07T12:46:20","slug":"11290","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11290","title":{"rendered":"Just To Be Clear"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the benefit of <a href=\"http:\/\/thecuckingstool.blogspot.com\/2010\/06\/whistling-past-bradlee-dean.html\">those <\/a>who mistake &#8220;chanting the chanting points on cue&#8221; for &#8220;reporting&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Apologia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ap\u00b7o\u00b7lo\u00b7gi\u00b7a<br \/>\n\/\u02cc\u00e6p\u0259\u02c8lo\u028ad\u0292i\u0259\/ Show Spelled[ap-uh-loh-jee-uh]<br \/>\n\u2013noun<br \/>\n<strong>1.<\/strong> an apology, as in defense or justification of a belief, idea, etc.<br \/>\n<strong>2.<\/strong> Literature . a work written as an explanation or justification of one&#8217;s motives, convictions, or acts.<\/p>\n<p><em>Antonym<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=11218\">This piece<\/a>, which doesn&#8217;t &#8220;apologize&#8221; for anything, but merely demands that a &#8220;journalist&#8221; substantiate his conclusion with in-context, accurate information, or drop it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Glad we could clear that up.<\/p>\n<p>(PS:\u00a0 Saying &#8220;Suuuuure, he didn&#8217;t&#8221; isn&#8217;t the most convincing argument).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the benefit of those who mistake &#8220;chanting the chanting points on cue&#8221; for &#8220;reporting&#8221;: Apologia ap\u00b7o\u00b7lo\u00b7gi\u00b7a \/\u02cc\u00e6p\u0259\u02c8lo\u028ad\u0292i\u0259\/ Show Spelled[ap-uh-loh-jee-uh] \u2013noun 1. an apology, as in defense or justification of a belief, idea, etc. 2. Literature . a work written as an explanation or justification of one&#8217;s motives, convictions, or acts. Antonym: This piece, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lefty-alt-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11292,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11290\/revisions\/11292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}