{"id":252,"date":"2019-01-29T12:40:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/?p=252"},"modified":"2019-01-29T12:40:57","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:40:57","slug":"lemmings-rushing-to-the-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/lemmings-rushing-to-the-slaughter\/","title":{"rendered":"Lemmings rushing to the slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word of the day: &#8220;Malaphor.&#8221; This is a combination of &#8220;metaphor&#8221; and &#8220;malapropism,&#8221; and appears in such forms as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s not rocket surgery.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I&#8217;ll burn that bridge when I come to it.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The title of this post<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8230;and so on.\u00c2\u00a0 I use some of these myself quite deliberately, so I suppose I am not precisely helping to maintain the purity of the language.<\/p>\n<p>This is courtesy of the very-delightful podcast <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theallusionist.org\/allusionist\/err\"><em>The Allusionist<\/em><\/a>, which I recommend to anyone else who enjoys wordy goodness; host Helen Zaltzman is whimsical and nerdy in proportions I very much enjoy.\u00c2\u00a0 Link there goes to the episode I listened to this morning; recommended for a listen if you have a spare twenty minutes or so.<\/p>\n<p>As often seems to happen, nature appears to have suddenly remembered mid-January that it is supposed to be winter, and dumped an alarmingly huge pile of snow on our heads; as I walked to meet everyone for ramen last night the wind was constantly sweeping fistful after fistful of vicious glitter into my face.\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today: piles everywhere of blinding white, some nearly as tall as I am.\u00c2\u00a0 (Miracle of miracles: the TTC ran like a dream this morning, and I secured a seat within a single stop.\u00c2\u00a0 I can only guess that perhaps most folk stayed home today.)<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not looking forward to the shoveling, but it IS rather lovely to look at&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word of the day: &#8220;Malaphor.&#8221; This is a combination of &#8220;metaphor&#8221; and &#8220;malapropism,&#8221; and appears in such forms as: &#8220;It&#8217;s not rocket surgery.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;ll burn that bridge when I come to it.&#8221; The title of this post &#8230;and so on.\u00c2\u00a0 I use some of these myself quite deliberately, so I suppose I am not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/lemmings-rushing-to-the-slaughter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Lemmings rushing to the slaughter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,21,1],"tags":[31,32,33],"class_list":["post-252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awesome-things","category-slice-of-life","category-uncategorized","tag-everydayliving","tag-media","tag-recommendations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rampantbicycle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}