{"id":772,"date":"2008-04-08T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=772"},"modified":"2008-04-08T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T09:59:00","slug":"more-youthful-misapprehensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=772","title":{"rendered":"More Youthful Misapprehensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a wee chap, it was commonplace in our schoolyard for one lad to deride another&#8217;s claim or opinion with the phrase, <a href=http:\/\/www.nz.com\/new-zealand\/guide-book\/language\/dictionary.aspx#g>&#8220;Get off the grass!&#8221;<\/a><br \/>\nNaturally I presumed that there was a metaphorical lawn, upon which one&#8217;s pronouncements were apt to be exaggerated if not outright falsehoods, or in the case of statements of opinion, extreme and poorly considered.<br \/>\nBy reference to this metaphorical lawn, and exhorting the speaker to depart from it, one could indicate one&#8217;s poor opinion of the veracity of the speaker&#8217;s claims, or of the value of their opinion.<br \/>\nRather a useful piece of garden topiary, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll agree!<br \/>\n<em>Ah, the naivete of youth!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a wee chap, it was commonplace in our schoolyard for one lad to deride another&#8217;s claim or opinion with the phrase, &#8220;Get off the grass!&#8221; Naturally I presumed that there was a metaphorical lawn, upon which one&#8217;s pronouncements were apt to be exaggerated if not outright falsehoods, or in the case of statements of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=772\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More Youthful Misapprehensions<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-self-ish"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8D9ZE-cs","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}