{"id":453,"date":"2003-07-21T13:37:56","date_gmt":"2003-07-21T17:37:56","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=453"},"modified":"2007-02-22T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T14:24:19","slug":"a-bloggers-lexicon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=453","title":{"rendered":"A Blogger’s Lexicon"},"content":{"rendered":"

(With apologies to Flaubert<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

< ...>: A form of emphasis employed by bloggers who wish to show that they understand HTML. The ellipses are usually replaced by “SARCASM” or “RANT” but anything will serve. Rendered as […][\/…] by bloggers who do not understand how to escape characters in HTML.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u201e\u00a2<\/font><\/i>: May be appended to anything except an actual trademark.<\/p>\n

call your office<\/i>: A directive not intended to be followed addressed to someone who will never read it.<\/p>\n

cool kids<\/i>: Other people.<\/p>\n

crickets chirping<\/i>: A colorful synonym for “silence.” Often set off in its own paragraph for extra color.<\/p>\n

even the<\/i>: Always succeeded by “liberal,” if you are conservative, or “conservative,” if you are liberal.<\/p>\n

fascist<\/i>: See idiotarian<\/i>.<\/p>\n

heh<\/i>: The soul of brevity is to use one word where none will do.<\/p>\n

idiotarian<\/i>: A particularly dull-witted commentator, and thus deserving of special attention, who disagrees with you. Thunder against.<\/p>\n

indeed<\/i>: See heh<\/i>.<\/p>\n

literally<\/i>: Figuratively.<\/p>\n

meme<\/i>: Anything that anyone else has ever referred to on the Internet.<\/p>\n

read the whole thing<\/i>: Always preceded by “As they say,” or “To coin a phrase.”<\/p>\n

shocked<\/i>: Always succeeded by (shocked!<\/i>).<\/p>\n

the “Q” word<\/i>: Quixotic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(With apologies to Flaubert.) < ...>: A form of emphasis employed by bloggers who wish to show that they understand HTML. The ellipses are usually replaced by “SARCASM” or “RANT” but anything will serve. Rendered as […][\/…] by bloggers who do not understand how to escape characters in HTML. \u00e2\u201e\u00a2: May be appended to anything […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-language","category-21-id","category-19-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}