{"id":1780,"date":"2009-07-26T11:51:22","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T18:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1780"},"modified":"2009-07-26T11:51:22","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T18:51:22","slug":"other_matters_wretched_excess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2009\/07\/other_matters_wretched_excess\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Matters: Wretched Excess On The Language Front"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Overkill word of the day, perhaps the decade: <strong>Absolutely<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThis week on <em>The News Hour<\/em> on PBS television, nearly every person interviewed began answers to a total of approximately 150 questions with, &#8220;Absolutely. &#8221; That frequency, from educated people discussing policy issues, is typical at all levels of public and private life.<br \/>\nPerhaps we can bring back &#8220;yes.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Inapt phrase of the day, perhaps the century: <strong>No Problem<\/strong>.<br \/>\nAsk for more water in a restaurant and the waiter says, &#8220;No problem.&#8221; Tell the supermarket cashier &#8220;Thank you,&#8221; and she says, &#8220;No problem.&#8221; Extreme example: the other day I wished a passerby a good morning. He replied, &#8220;Hey, no problem.&#8221;<br \/>\nThis is getting out of hand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Overkill word of the day, perhaps the decade: Absolutely. This week on The News Hour on PBS television, nearly every person interviewed began answers to a total of approximately 150 questions with, &#8220;Absolutely. &#8221; That frequency, from educated people discussing policy issues, is typical at all levels of public and private life. Perhaps we [&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-1780","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\/1780","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=1780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}