{"id":1130,"date":"2004-07-07T22:34:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-07T22:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1130"},"modified":"2018-08-13T13:50:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-13T18:50:17","slug":"1130","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/07\/07\/1130\/","title":{"rendered":"So-Called Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps Associated Press writer A. Josef Hebert only dabbles in American English as a second language, as he resorts to the dreaded <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/national\/apwashington_story.asp?category=1152&#038;slug=Iraq%20Dirty%20Bomb\" target=\"new\">so-called adjective<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a secret operation, the United States last month removed from Iraq nearly two tons of uranium and hundreds of highly radioactive items that could have been used in a <b>so-called<\/b> dirty bomb, the Energy Department disclosed Tuesday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m unsure what that particular adjective adds to the sentence.   Unless Hebert&#8217;s paid five cents a word, in which case it adds a dime to Hebert&#8217;s pocket.<\/p>\n<p>(Link courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/www.perryonpolitics.com\/archives\/001808.html\" target=\"new\">Perry on Politics<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps Associated Press writer A. Josef Hebert only dabbles in American English as a second language, as he resorts to the dreaded so-called adjective: In a secret operation, the United States last month removed from Iraq nearly two tons of uranium and hundreds of highly radioactive items that could have been used in a so-called [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1130"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23102,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1130\/revisions\/23102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}