{"id":408,"date":"2007-12-12T17:01:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T21:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/?p=408"},"modified":"2015-09-02T17:14:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-02T21:14:03","slug":"verbing-weirds-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/12\/verbing-weirds-language\/","title":{"rendered":"Verbing Weirds Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/calvin_and_hobbes.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1378\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/calvin_and_hobbes.gif\" alt=\"calvin_and_hobbes\" width=\"600\" height=\"189\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I loved this Calvin and Hobbes when it first came out. Just right. Found out today, though, that it inspired this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pix.net\/staff\/lidl\/quotes.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter Ellis<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(h\/t <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2007\/12\/shakespeare-cal.html\">Andrew Sullivan<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I loved this Calvin and Hobbes when it first came out. Just right. Found out today, though, that it inspired this: &#8220;First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing because verbing weirds language. Then they arrival for the nouns, and I speech nothing because I no verbs.&#8221; &#8212; Peter Ellis (h\/t Andrew Sullivan)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1379,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408\/revisions\/1379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bohls.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}