{"id":1752,"date":"2004-12-03T15:54:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-03T15:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=1752"},"modified":"2018-07-30T15:04:45","modified_gmt":"2018-07-30T20:04:45","slug":"1752","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/12\/03\/1752\/","title":{"rendered":"The Drug is a Brand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what I make of this capitalization from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/news\/metro\/dec04\/280494.asp\" target=\"_new\">this story<\/a> about a drug bust in Wisconsin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Along with the arrests, police seized powder cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, heroin and Ecstasy, seven handguns and ammunition, seven vehicles and $25,000 in cash. Police refused to give details.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, if that&#8217;s the case, shouldn&#8217;t it be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Along with the arrests, police seized powder cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, heroin and <b>Ecstasy&#174;<\/b> 3-4 methylenedioxymethamphetamine, seven handguns and ammunition, seven vehicles and $25,000 in cash. Police refused to give details.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ecstasy has been in the mainstream 20 years now.  How long until we drop the capital E.  (I mean that in the grammatical way, not as a slang for actually, you know, doing ecstasy.)  No one calls white lady Heroin any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s what I make of this capitalization from this story about a drug bust in Wisconsin: Along with the arrests, police seized powder cocaine, crack cocaine, marijuana, heroin and Ecstasy, seven handguns and ammunition, seven vehicles and $25,000 in cash. Police refused to give details. However, if that&#8217;s the case, shouldn&#8217;t it be: Along with [&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-1752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752","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=1752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20807,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1752\/revisions\/20807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}