{"id":354,"date":"2007-06-20T10:01:24","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T17:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=354"},"modified":"2007-06-20T10:07:18","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T17:07:18","slug":"fun-with-malapropisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/?p=354","title":{"rendered":"Fun with Malapropisms"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t know what my problem is, but I’ve had trouble reading lately. <\/p>\n

The other day, as GTB tailgated a Trimet bus, I noticed a bumper sticker on the back of it and, at first glance, thought it said “Bloodfest.” What it actually said was “Biodiesel.” WTF?<\/p>\n

This morning, while I waited for my latte, I read the front page of the New York Times and saw this headline: Bloomberg Severs G.O.P. Ties, Fueling Talk of ’08 Bid<\/a>. Only I read “severs” as “servers” and could NOT make sense of it. I had to read those nine words about ten times to figure it out.<\/p>\n

A few minutes ago, I was perusing CNN.com and saw this headline: ‘Manhunt 2’ banned for ‘casual sadism’<\/a>. I clicked right over because I read “sadism” as “sodomy” and couldn’t wait to read about the new video game featuring hot guy-on-guy action. Imagine my disappointment upon reading that it’s only got graphic violence. Damn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t know what my problem is, but I’ve had trouble reading lately. The other day, as GTB tailgated a Trimet bus, I noticed a bumper sticker on the back of it and, at first glance, thought it said “Bloodfest.” What it actually said was “Biodiesel.” WTF? This morning, while I waited for my latte, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hickopolis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}