{"id":138,"date":"2008-09-29T16:14:07","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T21:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/mojo\/?p=138"},"modified":"2025-07-31T21:43:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T02:43:34","slug":"the-cold-blooded-murder-of-the-english-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/blog\/the-cold-blooded-murder-of-the-english-tongue\/","title":{"rendered":"The cold-blooded murder of the English tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am resigned, although I have yet to make the official transition.<\/p>\n<p>I have finally, irrevocably, inexorably decided that I cannot stem the tide of the use of \u201c<strong><em>to raise<\/em><\/strong>\u201d in reference to human beings.  Much like the law of chastity, the use of \u201c<strong><em>to rear<\/em><\/strong>\u201d in reference to humans versus the use of \u201cto raise\u201d in reference to animals was beaten into my head from an early age and, well \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2026 I give up.<\/p>\n<p>But I swear, they\u2019ll have to waterboard me before I\u2019ll give into \u201calright.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am resigned, although I have yet to make the official transition. I have finally, irrevocably, inexorably decided that I cannot stem the tide of the use of \u201cto raise\u201d in reference to human beings. Much like the law of chastity, the use of \u201cto rear\u201d in reference to humans versus the use of \u201cto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[598,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17100,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/17100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moriahjovan.com\/talesofdunham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}