{"id":500,"date":"2003-12-17T09:08:37","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T17:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp\/2003\/12\/purple_prose_alert_2\/"},"modified":"2003-12-17T09:08:37","modified_gmt":"2003-12-17T17:08:37","slug":"purple_prose_alert_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/2003\/12\/purple_prose_alert_2.html","title":{"rendered":"PURPLE PROSE ALERT #2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>Purple prose is not the only way to sterilize the language. Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top<br \/>\nU.S. military commander in Iraq, demonstrated a colorless, odorless, antiseptic method earlier this<br \/>\nweek when asked if Saddam Hussein was cooperating with interrogaters. &#8220;In my interfaces with<br \/>\nhim he has been talkative,&#8221; Sanchez said. Since the general is leading the fight to &#8220;triumph over<br \/>\ntyranny&#8221; and &#8220;drain the swamp of terror,&#8221; as David Brooks put it yesterday (see <A\nhref=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/archives20031214.shtml#63628\"><B><EM><FONT\ncolor=#003399>Purple Prose Alert #1<\/FONT><\/EM><\/B><\/A>), we&#8217;ll throw in another<br \/>\nmetaphor and &#8220;cut him some slack.&#8221;<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Purple prose is not the only way to sterilize the language. Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq, demonstrated a colorless, odorless, antiseptic method earlier this week when asked if Saddam Hussein was cooperating with interrogaters. &#8220;In my interfaces with him he has been talkative,&#8221; Sanchez said. Since the general is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-500","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbvgEs-84","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/herman\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}