{"id":1280,"date":"2008-03-15T01:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2008-03-15T01:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T08:05:00","slug":"in_your_own_words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/03\/in_your_own_words\/","title":{"rendered":"In Your Own Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, English usage fans, you are not alone. Our item the other day on needless, overused or just plain annoying words and phrases encouraged a torrent of them from you. To revisit the original piece and&nbsp;see&nbsp;the responses so far, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/03\/other_matters_language.html#comments\">click here<\/a>. You&#8217;ll have to scroll up to get to the beginning. <\/p>\n<p>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"mt-image-left\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 20px 20px 0px\" height=\"83\" alt=\"Ciardi.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/Ciardi.jpg\" width=\"56\" \/><\/span>Have a pleasant weekend and, as the sainted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/03\/another_reason_i_miss_john_cia.html\">John Ciardi <\/a>used to say, good words to you.<br \/>\n<span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"DISPLAY: inline\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, English usage fans, you are not alone. Our item the other day on needless, overused or just plain annoying words and phrases encouraged a torrent of them from you. To revisit the original piece and&nbsp;see&nbsp;the responses so far, click here. You&#8217;ll have to scroll up to get to the beginning. Have a pleasant weekend [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1280","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}