{"id":31550,"date":"2021-10-19T09:42:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-19T13:42:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=31550"},"modified":"2021-10-19T10:57:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-19T14:57:02","slug":"frankensteins-pedant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=31550","title":{"rendered":"Frankenstein's Pedant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"tumblr-post\" data-href=\"https:\/\/embed.tumblr.com\/embed\/post\/t:9e9_A1X8M-Fd07cG4hom8w\/665430096517136384\/v2\" data-did=\"5d8e82a43b0699fd754a68ea7d712c0c772df1da\"  ><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/wilwheaton\/665430096517136384\">https:\/\/www.tumblr.com\/wilwheaton\/665430096517136384<\/a><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/assets.tumblr.com\/post.js?_v=38df9a6ca7436e6ca1b851b0543b9f51\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nobody gets prickly if you say \"I ran over the pedant in my Ford\" instead of \"I ran over the pedant in my Ford-brand automobile\". Likewise, it is perfectly grammatically and logically correct to say \"Frankenstein disemboweled the pedant\" instead of \"Frankenstein's monster disemboweled the pedant\". <\/p>\n<p>\"Frankenstein\" is a synecdoche for \"Frankenstein's monster\" (or \"a Frankenstein-brand monster\") the same way \"Ford\" is a synecdoche for \"Ford-brand automobile.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nobody gets prickly if you say \"I ran over the pedant in my Ford\" instead of \"I ran over the pedant in my Ford-brand automobile\". Likewise, it is perfectly grammatically and logically correct to say \"Frankenstein disemboweled the pedant\" instead of \"Frankenstein's monster disemboweled the pedant\". \"Frankenstein\" is a synecdoche for \"Frankenstein's monster\" (or \"a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31550"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31552,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31550\/revisions\/31552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}