{"id":1119,"date":"2015-11-29T06:57:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-29T14:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=1119"},"modified":"2015-11-29T06:57:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-29T14:57:58","slug":"cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2015\/11\/29\/cliches\/","title":{"rendered":"Clich\u00e9s Used in Journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/opinions\/wp\/2014\/02\/27\/the-outlook-list-of-things-we-do-not-say\/?postshare=1881448774761010&amp;tid=ss_tw\">The Washington Post compiles a helpful list; it&#8217;s up to 200<\/a>. I am guilty of using the following in speaking (and the first one listed here in writing, too &#8211; alas):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Any \u201cnot-un\u201d formulation (as in \u201cnot unsurprising that you\u2019d use that cliche\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>Less than you think (how do you know what I think?)<\/p>\n<p>More often than not<\/p>\n<p>The new normal<\/p>\n<p>For all intents and purposes<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Some clich\u00e9s irritate more than others. I tend to stop listening when I hear &#8220;Orwellian&#8221; or &#8220;double-down.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">h\/t JG<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post compiles a helpful list; it&#8217;s up to 200. I am guilty of using the following in speaking (and the first one listed here in writing, too &#8211; alas): Any \u201cnot-un\u201d formulation (as in \u201cnot unsurprising that you\u2019d &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2015\/11\/29\/cliches\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[20,55,57],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-cliche","tag-journalism","tag-language"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}