{"id":191883,"date":"2009-06-10T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/10\/a-correction-7\/"},"modified":"2009-06-10T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T22:12:00","slug":"a-correction-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/10\/a-correction-7\/","title":{"rendered":"A Correction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/liberals-in-congress-doing-right-thing.html\">earlier post<\/a>, I quoted the late Edwin Newman, when I said that something &#8220;buggers the mind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s from his book, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Strictly Speaking, Will America be the death of English?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The quote is accurate, but the reports of Mr. Newman&#8217;s demise, to quote Mark Twain,<sup>*<\/sup> &#8220;Are greatly exaggerated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He is 90 years old, and still very much alive.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Who actually <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">is<\/span> dead.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an earlier post, I quoted the late Edwin Newman, when I said that something &#8220;buggers the mind.&#8221; It&#8217;s from his book, Strictly Speaking, Will America be the death of English? The quote is accurate, but the reports of Mr. Newman&#8217;s demise, to quote Mark Twain,* &#8220;Are greatly exaggerated.&#8221; He is 90 years old, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1047,1118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corrections","category-meta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191883"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}