{"id":7402,"date":"2015-02-03T04:52:40","date_gmt":"2015-02-03T04:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/03\/distasteful-slang\/"},"modified":"2015-02-03T04:52:40","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T04:52:40","slug":"distasteful-slang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/03\/distasteful-slang\/","title":{"rendered":"Distasteful Slang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I have nothing against slang as such, but there are contexts in which it does not belong.&#0160; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1503036413\/ref=pe_1399610_132349630_em_4p_3_im#reader_1503036413\" target=\"_self\">Here <\/a>is a book by one Fr. Andrew Younan entitled <em>Metaphysics and Natural Theology<\/em>.&#0160; One chapter is entitled &quot;Aristotle and the Other Guys.&quot;&#0160; Another &quot;Thomas Aquinas &#8212; A Bunch of Stuff.&quot;&#0160; A third &quot;God Stuff.&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Disgusting.&#0160; Either you see why or you don&#39;t.&#0160; I can&#39;t argue you out of your low-rent sensibility.&#0160; In matters of sensibility, argument comes too late.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have nothing against slang as such, but there are contexts in which it does not belong.&#0160; Here is a book by one Fr. Andrew Younan entitled Metaphysics and Natural Theology.&#0160; One chapter is entitled &quot;Aristotle and the Other Guys.&quot;&#0160; Another &quot;Thomas Aquinas &#8212; A Bunch of Stuff.&quot;&#0160; A third &quot;God Stuff.&quot; Disgusting.&#0160; Either you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/02\/03\/distasteful-slang\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Distasteful Slang&#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-7402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402","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=7402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}