{"id":13436,"date":"2014-04-25T06:04:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-25T11:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=13436"},"modified":"2014-04-25T06:04:44","modified_gmt":"2014-04-25T11:04:44","slug":"an-inadvertent-oxymoron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/25\/an-inadvertent-oxymoron\/","title":{"rendered":"An Inadvertent Oxymoron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From an article on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news-leader.com\/story\/news\/crime\/2014\/04\/24\/seeking-answers-deaths-two-children-weeks-apart\/8118181\/\" target=\"_blank\">suspicious deaths of a pair of children<\/a>, we have this beauty:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The circumstances surrounding the death of the two children had <strong>various similarities<\/strong>,&#8221; Wilcox said in a statement emailed to the News-Leader. <em>[Emphasis added]<\/em> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Various<\/em>, from variety, implies many different.  Literally, you can&#8217;t have varied similarities without risking the delicate balance between existence and non-existence in our fragile universe.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, <em>various<\/em> has been abstracted to mean nothing more than <em>many<\/em> or <em>several<\/em> in the argot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article on the suspicious deaths of a pair of children, we have this beauty: &#8220;The circumstances surrounding the death of the two children had various similarities,&#8221; Wilcox said in a statement emailed to the News-Leader. [Emphasis added] Various, from variety, implies many different. Literally, you can&#8217;t have varied similarities without risking the delicate [&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-13436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13436","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=13436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13437,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13436\/revisions\/13437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}