{"id":43933,"date":"2014-05-20T05:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T10:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43933"},"modified":"2014-05-18T09:47:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-18T14:47:17","slug":"heard-in-passing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=43933","title":{"rendered":"Heard In Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>I overheard a woman talking on the cell phone, axing someone\u2019s location.\u00a0 At first, I thought she was ignorant, her question an abominable wrenching of the English Language.\u00a0 Now I realize she was devolving the language to a simpler state, no doubt to economize on words and thereby save cell minutes.<\/p>\n<p>She condensed an inquiry into an entire day\u2019s events down to \u201cWhere You At?\u201d followed by two modifiers for temporal variations: \u201cWhere You Bin?\u201d and Where You Going?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thrifty.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Joe Doakes<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The funny part of language is that it is the ultimate free market. Left to its own devices, it evolves, usually in ways that make sense for its consumers.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t always mean good things, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: I overheard a woman talking on the cell phone, axing someone\u2019s location.\u00a0 At first, I thought she was ignorant, her question an abominable wrenching of the English Language.\u00a0 Now I realize she was devolving the language to a simpler state, no doubt to economize on words and thereby save [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43933","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=43933"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43933\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43941,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43933\/revisions\/43941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}