{"id":1590,"date":"2004-10-07T18:56:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2018-08-01T06:36:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-01T11:36:39","slug":"1590","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/07\/1590\/","title":{"rendered":"Mishandled Metaphors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, back in the <i>Seattle Post-Intelligence<\/i>, columnist Thomas Shapley <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlepi.nwsource.com\/opinion\/193373_shapcol03.html\" target=\"_new\">decries an ad<\/a> from a candidate for Senate.  George Nethercutt, the Republican challenger, includes in the advertisement Senator Patty Murray from this immortal exchange:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;He [Osama bin Laden]&#8217;s been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building health care facilities, and the people are extremely grateful,&#8221; Murray told them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Shapley tut tuts the despicable practice of using someone&#8217;s words against her and opens a can of whoop metaphor:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By that standard, fighting crime by trying to figure out what drove Gary Ridgway to murder 48 women is excusing him of the crimes. <b>Sorry, that Doberman won&#8217;t hunt.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps Shapely took a Doberman hunting when he went crawling through the brush with John Kerry and a trusty shotgun while deerhunting.<\/p>\n<p>(Link via <i>National Review<\/i>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/kerry\/kerry200410071015.asp\" target=\"_new\">Kerry Spot<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meanwhile, back in the Seattle Post-Intelligence, columnist Thomas Shapley decries an ad from a candidate for Senate. George Nethercutt, the Republican challenger, includes in the advertisement Senator Patty Murray from this immortal exchange: &#8220;He [Osama bin Laden]&#8217;s been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day care facilities, building [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","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=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20956,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/20956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}