{"id":4295,"date":"2009-03-02T06:37:22","date_gmt":"2009-03-02T11:37:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4295"},"modified":"2009-03-02T07:32:06","modified_gmt":"2009-03-02T12:32:06","slug":"cant-make-it-up-fast-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=4295","title":{"rendered":"Can’t Make It Up Fast Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a fairly common convention in English to refer to very unlikely conditions and scenarios by comparing them to absurdly unlikely conditions or scenarios.\u00a0 Most any native speaker of English knows what you mean when you refer to a “three dollar bill”, a “French war hero”, a “submarine with screen doors”, or a “DFL Listening Tour”.<\/p>\n

Now, off and on over the years, I gotta admit – I thought I was clever, in fact – that one of my rhetorical flouishes in this area was “Icelandic Special Forces”.\u00a0 The idea that pacific, reindeer-sweater-wearing Iceland would have a unit of snake-eating cloak and dagger operators seemed like…<\/p>\n

…well, you know where this is leading<\/a>, right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a fairly common convention in English to refer to very unlikely conditions and scenarios by comparing them to absurdly unlikely conditions or scenarios.\u00a0 Most any native speaker of English knows what you mean when you refer to a “three dollar bill”, a “French war hero”, a “submarine with screen doors”, or a “DFL Listening […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geekery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295","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=4295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}