{"id":30360,"date":"2022-09-26T06:09:06","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T11:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=30360"},"modified":"2022-09-26T06:09:06","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T11:09:06","slug":"announcing-it-makes-it-first-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2022\/09\/26\/announcing-it-makes-it-first-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"Announcing It Makes It First Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/news\/uknews\/19918113\/neighbours-complain-roosters-crowing-loudly-council-kill-them\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">COME HOME TO ROOST My neighbours complained about my roosters being too loud \u2013 now council says I might have to KILL them\u2026 I\u2019m devastated<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Although the pronoun with a questionable antecedent does not make it clear whether the woman needs to kill her neighbors or the council.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe the roosters, but it&#8217;s only one of three nounds in the subheadline (the capitalized headline has <em>home<\/em> and <em>roost<\/em>, none of which could be the direct object of the second).<\/p>\n<p>(Note the article makes it clear they&#8217;re talking about the cockerels.)<\/p>\n<p>You know what?  I&#8217;ve been goofing on headlines like this for nearly two decades, but we&#8217;ve gotten to a point where I write posts like this, and I think <em>Is this enough to serve as a pretext for a pre-dawn armed raid by the authorities because I&#8217;m posting calls for anti-authority violence?<\/em>  What an exciting world we live in now!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COME HOME TO ROOST My neighbours complained about my roosters being too loud \u2013 now council says I might have to KILL them\u2026 I\u2019m devastated Although the pronoun with a questionable antecedent does not make it clear whether the woman needs to kill her neighbors or the council. Maybe the roosters, but it&#8217;s only one [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30360","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=30360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30362,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30360\/revisions\/30362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}