{"id":290,"date":"2005-10-24T16:04:57","date_gmt":"2005-10-24T23:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=290"},"modified":"2005-10-24T16:04:57","modified_gmt":"2005-10-24T23:04:57","slug":"misuse-of-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2005\/10\/24\/misuse-of-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Misuse of Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article in today&#8217;s NY Times, there is a quote in reference to Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination that she has &#8220;a tough road to hoe.&#8221;  To me, it is impossible to &#8220;hoe&#8221; a &#8220;road&#8221; unless you are prostituting yourself.  Other words like trick and john come to mind as well.  While the original saying &#8220;A tough row to hoe&#8221; makes sense from a gardening perspective, the way it is currently being used is flat out wrong and should be stopped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article in today&#8217;s NY Times, there is a quote in reference to Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination that she has &#8220;a tough road to hoe.&#8221; To me, it is impossible to &#8220;hoe&#8221; a &#8220;road&#8221; unless you are prostituting yourself. Other words like trick and john come to mind as well. While the original [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[360,362],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ramblings","tag-language","tag-law"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}