{"id":828,"date":"2004-04-17T03:52:00","date_gmt":"2004-04-17T03:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2018-08-14T07:41:04","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T12:41:04","slug":"828","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2004\/04\/17\/828\/","title":{"rendered":"Leave the Metaphors to the Professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Reason&#8217;s<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reason.com\/hitandrun\/005020.shtml#005020\" target=\"new\">Hit and Run<\/a> links to <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com\/news?tmpl=story&#038;cid=841&#038;ncid=841&#038;e=15&#038;u=\/nm\/20040414\/wl_canada_nm\/canada_crime_usa_canada_col\" target=\"new\">an official proclamation<\/a> that warns hapless American citizens (a redundancy in the mind of Those Who Are Noble Enough to Rule) about Canadian pot:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> &#8220;Canada is exporting to us the crack of marijuana and it is a dangerous problem,&#8221; Walters told reporters in Miami, where he kicked off a campaign to cut marijuana use by Hispanic youths.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s examine that metaphor.  Canada (Canada!) is exporting to us the <i><b>most addictive drug<\/i><\/b> of drug.  Crikey, it&#8217;s the <i>cornflower blue<\/i> of all blues!  The <i>Super Bowl<\/i> of football games!<\/p>\n<p>I think somewhere Walters has opened a rift in the Space-Metaphor continuum.  Sure, it&#8217;s small now, but it&#8217;s growing, and someday soon discourse will be sucked into incomprehensibility.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t warn you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason&#8217;s Hit and Run links to an official proclamation that warns hapless American citizens (a redundancy in the mind of Those Who Are Noble Enough to Rule) about Canadian pot: &#8220;Canada is exporting to us the crack of marijuana and it is a dangerous problem,&#8221; Walters told reporters in Miami, where he kicked off a [&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-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","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=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23433,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/23433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}