{"id":699,"date":"2008-07-17T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=699"},"modified":"2008-07-17T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-18T04:01:00","slug":"banning-trite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/banning-trite\/","title":{"rendered":"Banning the Trite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The term &#8220;effortlessly chic&#8221; has been overused to such an extent that it has surpassed &#8220;aging gracefully&#8221; in its ability to irritate me. Not only is it a fashion cliche, it&#8217;s inaccurate as well. Being effortlessly chic and\/or gracefully aged requires effort AND good genes. You all are now banned from using &#8220;effortlessly chic&#8221; or any variant thereof until further notice. Violators will be <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/thursday-book-club-isabella-she-wolf.html\">Despensered<\/a>. Thank you in advance for your obedience.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">Sincerely,<br \/>The Management<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2007\/10\/thursday-book-club-isabella-she-wolf.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SH5v5O85xBI\/AAAAAAAADso\/iHm-xr5CSrc\/s320\/hughdespenser.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223735646853121042\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Don&#8217;t make me angry.<\/span><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The term &#8220;effortlessly chic&#8221; has been overused to such an extent that it has surpassed &#8220;aging gracefully&#8221; in its ability to irritate me. Not only is it a fashion cliche, it&#8217;s inaccurate as well. Being effortlessly chic and\/or gracefully aged requires effort AND good genes. You all are now banned from using &#8220;effortlessly chic&#8221; or&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/banning-trite\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[132,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-banned","7":"category-insanity","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}