{"id":5582,"date":"2017-04-26T11:46:57","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T11:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/26\/of-bocce-and-blog\/"},"modified":"2017-04-26T11:46:57","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T11:46:57","slug":"of-bocce-and-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/26\/of-bocce-and-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Bocce and Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/2017\/04\/on-reaching-out.html\">just<\/a> got off a language rant and now I&#39;m warmed up. &#0160;Here&#39;s another. &#0160;Snowflakes turn back now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">The name of the game is <em>bocce<\/em>, not &#39;bocce ball.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Do you call tennis &#39;tennis ball&#39;? Soccer &#39;soccer ball&#39;? Golf &#39;golf ball&#39;? &#0160;Get on the ball.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">And there are still idiots who refer to a blog post or a blog entry as a &#39;blog.&#39; &#0160;Can&#39;t you think at all? Do you call an item on a list a list? A paragraph of an essay an essay? A sentence in a paragraph a paragraph? A word in a sentence a sentence? A letter in a word a word?&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got off a language rant and now I&#39;m warmed up. &#0160;Here&#39;s another. &#0160;Snowflakes turn back now. The name of the game is bocce, not &#39;bocce ball.&#39; Do you call tennis &#39;tennis ball&#39;? Soccer &#39;soccer ball&#39;? Golf &#39;golf ball&#39;? &#0160;Get on the ball. And there are still idiots who refer to a blog post &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/26\/of-bocce-and-blog\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Of Bocce and Blog&#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-5582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582","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=5582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}