{"id":1909,"date":"2014-11-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a-mountain.com\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2014-11-06T12:08:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-06T19:08:52","slug":"block-that-metaphor-stolen-fair-and-square-from-the-new-yorker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/?p=1909","title":{"rendered":"Block that metaphor (stolen fair and square from The New Yorker)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the Department of Regrettable Metaphors, FUBAR Sentences and Abused Prepositions:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFootball is sometimes an itch that cannot be scratched, a forever thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <strong>Arizona Daily Star, November 6, 2014, page 1, Section B<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Such itches give you a rash. Until you die. Then you Rash in Peace. A thing of forever.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Not scratching an itch leads to other itches, more itches and so many more that they become sons of itches. It&#8217;s a generational forever thing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>This football thing stops here, but you know we just scratched the surface. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Editing is a scratch just itching for a number one lead pencil to cut the crap, a now-and-again thing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Department of Regrettable Metaphors, FUBAR Sentences and Abused Prepositions: \u201cFootball is sometimes an itch that cannot be scratched, a forever thing.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Arizona Daily Star, November 6, 2014, page 1, Section B \u00a0 Such itches give you a rash. Until you die. Then you Rash in Peace. A thing of forever. Not scratching [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auslander.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}