{"id":1657,"date":"2004-10-27T13:19:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-27T13:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1657"},"modified":"2017-12-14T13:33:08","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T19:33:08","slug":"1657","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/27\/1657\/","title":{"rendered":"Impressive Passive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i>St. Louis Post-Dipsatch<\/i> once again deploys the passive voice creatively in a headline: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/neighborhoods\/stories.nsf\/news\/story\/493641E29341E6D086256F32006E72E3?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Wal-Mart+employee+injured+after+man+flees+from+store+securit\" target=\"_new\">Wal-Mart employee injured after man flees from store security<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Hendricks said the security officials were attempting to stop Taylor from leaving when Taylor put the car in reverse, allegedly causing injury to one of the Wal-Mart employees.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Man, what sort of style guide do they have down there on Tucker that says that injuries done in the course of a crime just happen spontaneously?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Louis Post-Dipsatch once again deploys the passive voice creatively in a headline: Wal-Mart employee injured after man flees from store security: Hendricks said the security officials were attempting to stop Taylor from leaving when Taylor put the car in reverse, allegedly causing injury to one of the Wal-Mart employees. Man, what sort of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657","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=1657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18547,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1657\/revisions\/18547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}