{"id":7456,"date":"2015-01-08T15:27:10","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T15:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/08\/leftist-enablers-as-useful-idiots\/"},"modified":"2015-01-08T15:27:10","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T15:27:10","slug":"leftist-enablers-as-useful-idiots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/08\/leftist-enablers-as-useful-idiots\/","title":{"rendered":"Leftist Enablers as Useful Idiots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Having lost their heads, they are in danger of losing their heads.<\/span>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\"><strong>Addendum 1\/9<\/strong>. It is a nice literary question whether the above formulation is superior to<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Having lost their<em> minds<\/em>, they are in danger of losing their <em>heads<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I like both formulations but prefer the first because it exploits&#0160; an equivocation on &#39;lose one&#39;s head.&#39; Logical heads shun equivocation like the plague, but it has its literary uses and charms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">By the way, the sentence immediately preceding features the figure of speech known as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=synechdoche&amp;ie=utf-8&amp;oe=utf-8#q=synecdoche\" target=\"_self\">synecdoche<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having lost their heads, they are in danger of losing their heads.&#0160; &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.. Addendum 1\/9. It is a nice literary question whether the above formulation is superior to Having lost their minds, they are in danger of losing their heads. I like both formulations but prefer the first because it exploits&#0160; an equivocation on &#39;lose &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/01\/08\/leftist-enablers-as-useful-idiots\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Leftist Enablers as Useful Idiots&#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":[69,119,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aphorisms-and-observations","category-islamism","category-literary-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456","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=7456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}