{"id":243,"date":"2003-08-31T23:08:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-31T23:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=243"},"modified":"2018-08-02T16:38:43","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T21:38:43","slug":"243","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2003\/08\/31\/243\/","title":{"rendered":"When is a Clich\u00e9 Not a Clich\u00e9?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously, when a 733t Skillz H34dl1ne Wr1t3r smears the pallete and mixes up some new metaphors, like in this <i>St. Louis Post-Dispatch<\/i> header:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stltoday.com\/stltoday\/news\/stories.nsf\/News\/NewsWatch\/0C2D877EB7CBA1DA86256D920077B4E2?OpenDocument&#038;Headline=Democrats+shake+up+their+slate&#038;highlight=2%2Cslate\" target=\"new\">Democrats shake up their slate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You see, you used to erase slates with an eraser or a cloth when you wanted to change information on them.  But this headline writer updated the metaphor by including the shaking erasure style used by this new laptop called an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etch-a-sketch.com\/html\/history.htm\" target=\"new\">Etch-A-Sketch<\/a>.  Apparently, this new gizmo has an LCD screen or something you can manually clear by, get this, <i>shaking it<\/i>!<\/p>\n<p>By including it in the headline, this master craftsman ensure that today&#8217;s kids &#8220;dig it.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obviously, when a 733t Skillz H34dl1ne Wr1t3r smears the pallete and mixes up some new metaphors, like in this St. Louis Post-Dispatch header: Democrats shake up their slate You see, you used to erase slates with an eraser or a cloth when you wanted to change information on them. But this headline writer updated the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines","category-st-louis-post-dispatch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","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=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21491,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions\/21491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}