{"id":10553,"date":"2011-07-10T13:08:27","date_gmt":"2011-07-10T13:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/10\/x-is-the-new-y\/"},"modified":"2011-07-10T13:08:27","modified_gmt":"2011-07-10T13:08:27","slug":"x-is-the-new-y","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/07\/10\/x-is-the-new-y\/","title":{"rendered":"‘X is the New Y’"},"content":{"rendered":"

We could call 'X is the new Y' a sentential template of laziness.  Are you sick of it yet?    (Snowclone<\/a> has been introduced as a terminus technicus<\/em> for the genus of which 'X is the new Y' is a species.)  If not, try these on for size:<\/span><\/p>\n

1. Casey Anthony is the new O. J. Simpson.<\/span>
2. Obama is the new Carter.<\/span>
3. Yellow is the new green. (From an article urging the recycling of human urine.)<\/span>
4. Michelle Bachmann is the new Sarah Palin. (The latest object of leftist sexism.)<\/span>
5. Fifty is the new forty.  <\/span>
6. Blue is the new pink. (Blue-staters are lefties.)<\/span>
7. Blue is the new red. (Blue-staters are crypto-commies.)<\/span>
8. Asians are the new Jews. <\/span>
9. Radical Muslims are the new Communists. (If Communism was the main threat to civilization in the 20th century, then radical Islam is the main threat in the 21st century.)<\/span>
10. Gold is the new cash.<\/span>
11. God is the new devil.  <\/span>
12. Black is the new chrome. (As in the latest Harley-Davidson models.)<\/span>
13. Flourescent is the new incandescent.<\/span>
14. Romney is the new McCain. (A wishy-washy go-along-to-get-along Republican.)
15. Anthony Weiner is the new Eliot Spitzer. 
16. English is the new Latin. (The international language of scholarship and science.) <\/span> <\/span> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We could call 'X is the new Y' a sentential template of laziness.  Are you sick of it yet?    (Snowclone has been introduced as a terminus technicus for the genus of which 'X is the new Y' is a species.)  If not, try these on for size: 1. Casey Anthony is the new O. J. … Continue reading “‘X is the New Y’”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}