{"id":471,"date":"2003-08-21T11:51:51","date_gmt":"2003-08-21T15:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=471"},"modified":"2007-02-22T10:18:42","modified_gmt":"2007-02-22T14:18:42","slug":"filthy-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=471","title":{"rendered":"Filthy Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"

I liked Eve Tushnet’s list<\/a> of words she overuses; all bloggers should be required to post one. Here’s mine:<\/p>\n

but
\nso
\nbecause
\nnotwithstanding
\neven
\ndistinguish (also the adjective, “distinguished”)
\nritual
\ndispositive (twice is too often)
\ncharacteristic
\nI<\/p>\n

There’s a glass and concrete tower in Manhattan, 9 West 57th Street<\/a>, with crossed steel supports on the outside, over the windows, “exposing structure” that it doesn’t need. I write like that. I won’t even get into my colon and parenthesis habits. I can quit any time I want to. <\/p>\n

(Update:<\/b> Mg<\/a> takes me up on it.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I liked Eve Tushnet’s list of words she overuses; all bloggers should be required to post one. Here’s mine: but so because notwithstanding even distinguish (also the adjective, “distinguished”) ritual dispositive (twice is too often) characteristic I There’s a glass and concrete tower in Manhattan, 9 West 57th Street, with crossed steel supports on the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","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\/471","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=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}