{"id":5317,"date":"2023-01-03T09:13:18","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/?p=5317"},"modified":"2023-01-03T09:24:23","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T15:24:23","slug":"when-someone-wants-to-scare-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/?p=5317","title":{"rendered":"When Someone Wants To Scare You"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s harder to analyze events than to paste labels on them. Events come thick and fast, and pundits have to say something. It\u2019s mostly pundits I\u2019m talking about, but not entirely. History may not repeat, but it does rhyme, they say, and then they reach for one of these tropes. When the tropes are repeated again and again, they can influence policymakers. They flatten everyone\u2019s thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Here are five that I find particularly irritating.<\/p>\n<cite><a href=\"https:\/\/nucleardiner.wordpress.com\/2023\/01\/02\/five-tropes-i-hope-not-to-see-in-the-new-year-but-we-will\/\">Nuclear Diner<\/a> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s a good read about how pundits quickly give you rhetorical shortcuts when writing about current events. Cheryl Rofer over at Nuclear Diner gives you five signs that the author of the post, op-ed, or Twitter you&#8217;re reading is lazy writing and to be avoided.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s harder to analyze events than to paste labels on them. Events come thick and fast, and pundits have to say something. It\u2019s mostly pundits I\u2019m talking about, but not entirely. History may not repeat, but it does rhyme, they say, and then they reach for one of these tropes. When the tropes are repeated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":4639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_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":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,45,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-media","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p74d9M-1nL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/guyandrewhall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/blah3.jpeg?fit=463%2C464&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5317"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5321,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5317\/revisions\/5321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guyandrewhall.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}