{"id":521,"date":"2009-01-19T15:35:08","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T15:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/?p=521"},"modified":"2009-01-19T15:35:08","modified_gmt":"2009-01-19T15:35:08","slug":"i-weep-for-our-language-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/19\/i-weep-for-our-language-part-7\/","title":{"rendered":"I weep for our language, part 7."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Kevin at <a href=http:\/\/faninterference.wordpress.com\/2009\/01\/08\/the-slow-death-of-literacy-pt-mmmmmdclxxviii\/>Fan Interference<\/a>, we have BC basketball coach Al Skinner:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI tried to pre-warn them . . . We were capable of being this team and capable of being another team.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Kevin points out, a warning that isn&#8217;t pre- is kind of useless. Reminds me of the old Bill Cosby routine about the &#8220;dip&#8221; signs in California. I&#8217;m thinking this is roughly as embarrassing as BC&#8217;s athletic director throwing a tantrum over his football coach interviewing for a better, higher-paying job. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of Kevin at Fan Interference, we have BC basketball coach Al Skinner: \u201cI tried to pre-warn them . . . We were capable of being this team and capable of being another team.\u201d As Kevin points out, a warning that isn&#8217;t pre- is kind of useless. Reminds me of the old Bill Cosby routine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[847],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-grammar","entry"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meadowparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}