{"id":1316,"date":"2008-02-27T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=1316"},"modified":"2008-02-27T13:20:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T13:20:00","slug":"declining_linguistic_standards_i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2008\/02\/27\/declining_linguistic_standards_i\/","title":{"rendered":"Declining Linguistic Standards in the Modern Urban Setting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, I work on a block of buildings that are roughly a century old, and one of them is currently undergoing extensive renovations. That means the nice, peaceful plaza where I like to sit on pleasantly warm days isn&#8217;t very inviting right now, what with the constant beep-beep-beep of delivery vehicle back-up alerts and the crash and boom of broken masonry, wood, and metal being dumped down a ten-story-high disposal chute into a giant dumpster below. I&#8217;m frankly eager for the whole thing to be over with.<\/p>\n<p>That said, however, the situation does have its amusing aspects. Like the signs I noticed on the building&#8217;s front doors today, the ones that warn passersby of &#8220;Undry Paint.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Undry.&#8221; In my day, we used to call that &#8220;<i>wet<\/i>.&#8221; I guess times change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, I work on a block of buildings that are roughly a century old, and one of them is currently undergoing extensive renovations. That means the nice, peaceful plaza where I like to sit on pleasantly warm days isn&#8217;t very inviting right now, what with the constant beep-beep-beep of delivery vehicle back-up alerts and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-bloody-red-pen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}