{"id":26628,"date":"2019-11-10T11:29:44","date_gmt":"2019-11-10T17:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=26628"},"modified":"2019-11-10T11:29:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-10T17:29:44","slug":"this-is-driving-me-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/11\/10\/this-is-driving-me-nuts\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is Driving Me Nuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

For two days now, too. Perhaps I’m too literal or something, but on CNN’s<\/em><\/strong> front page, this article<\/a> was headlined:<\/p>\n

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Original ‘Marlboro Man’ dead after a life spent not smoking<\/h3>\n<\/blockquote>\n

And, from the article:<\/p>\n

The rancher and philanthropist best known for playing the original “Marlboro Man” has died after a life spent not smoking.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

NO NO NO NO. You don’t spend time NOT doing things!<\/p>\n

Now, look, I’m an inadvertent advocate of new ways to express, in writing, inner thoughts in order to convey them to your readers. Contending adjectives, verbing nouns, contradictory assertions, all that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

But this doesn’t work. It evokes nothing but annoyance. Simply say he played a smoker, but wasn’t. He didn’t waste his time with it. Something like that.<\/p>\n

Stop it, CNN<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For two days now, too. Perhaps I’m too literal or something, but on CNN’s front page, this article was headlined: Original ‘Marlboro Man’ dead after a life spent not smoking And, from the article: The rancher and philanthropist best known for playing the original “Marlboro Man” has died after a \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26629,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26628\/revisions\/26629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}