{"id":5082,"date":"2017-11-03T04:57:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T04:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/03\/taking-responsibility-and-taking-credit\/"},"modified":"2017-11-03T04:57:28","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T04:57:28","slug":"taking-responsibility-and-taking-credit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/03\/taking-responsibility-and-taking-credit\/","title":{"rendered":"Language Rant: Taking Responsibility and Taking Credit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c930433a970b-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Walter\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c930433a970b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c01b7c930433a970b-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Walter\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Another note for benighted journalists who have, but too often do not honor, their duty to preserve and protect the English language in all her expressive and thought-guiding glory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">What one takes responsibility for may be either good or bad. What one takes credit for, however, is good. Terrorist acts are not good. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Therefore, do not report that ISIS &#39;took credit&#39; for an atrocity but that they &#39;took responsibility&#39; for it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Walter (HT: Jeff Dunham) is the <em>MavPhil<\/em> &#39;icon&#39; of the language rant. &#39;Icon,&#39; however, needs it own rant. Later.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another note for benighted journalists who have, but too often do not honor, their duty to preserve and protect the English language in all her expressive and thought-guiding glory. What one takes responsibility for may be either good or bad. What one takes credit for, however, is good. Terrorist acts are not good. Therefore, do &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/11\/03\/taking-responsibility-and-taking-credit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Language Rant: Taking Responsibility and Taking Credit&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082","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=5082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}