{"id":30753,"date":"2012-09-27T05:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30753"},"modified":"2012-09-27T09:55:16","modified_gmt":"2012-09-27T14:55:16","slug":"our-ever-changing-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=30753","title":{"rendered":"Our Ever-Changing Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The came via email yesterday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In Greece, rioters are throwing Molotov cocktails at police. The cops who are not on fire are responding with tear gas.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/news\/pictures\/slideshow?articleId=USRTR38FQ8#a=11  \">Force continuum fail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>CNN calls setting cops on fire &#8220;minor scuffles,&#8221; and the rioters\/attempted murderers &#8220;protesters&#8221; and &#8220;demonstrators.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2012\/09\/26\/world\/europe\/greece-protests\/index.html?hpt=hp_t3\">Journalism fail<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A &#8220;student&#8221; throwing a molotov cocktail at a cop halfway around the world is a &#8220;protester&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Someone throwing one at, say, CNN headquarters is, I suspect, a &#8220;terrorist&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The came via email yesterday: In Greece, rioters are throwing Molotov cocktails at police. The cops who are not on fire are responding with tear gas. Force continuum fail. CNN calls setting cops on fire &#8220;minor scuffles,&#8221; and the rioters\/attempted murderers &#8220;protesters&#8221; and &#8220;demonstrators.&#8221; Journalism fail. A &#8220;student&#8221; throwing a molotov cocktail at a cop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30753","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=30753"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30758,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30753\/revisions\/30758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}