{"id":5958,"date":"2016-12-14T04:41:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T04:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/14\/of-broach-and-brook\/"},"modified":"2016-12-14T04:41:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T04:41:38","slug":"of-broach-and-brook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/12\/14\/of-broach-and-brook\/","title":{"rendered":"Of &#8216;Broach&#8217; and &#8216;Brook&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">I just found this sentence at <em>Puffington Host:<\/em>&#0160;&quot;He is so insecure, he will broach no criticism.&quot; &#0160;You may easily guess whom the author is huffing and puffing over.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">But one does not <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&amp;ion=1&amp;espv=2&amp;ie=UTF-8#q=broach+definition\">broach<\/a> no criticism; one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/brook\">brooks<\/a> no criticism.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">I brook no contradiction on this point.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino;\">Language matters.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just found this sentence at Puffington Host:&#0160;&quot;He is so insecure, he will broach no criticism.&quot; &#0160;You may easily guess whom the author is huffing and puffing over. But one does not broach no criticism; one brooks no criticism. I brook no contradiction on this point. Language matters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958","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=5958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}