{"id":5278,"date":"2010-11-26T23:37:03","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T04:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5278"},"modified":"2010-11-26T23:37:03","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T04:37:03","slug":"decapitating-the-luminaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5278","title":{"rendered":"Decapitating the luminaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/5207752707\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4149\/5207752707_1e3c650087.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I made a concerted effort to do absolutely nothing today, and I must say, for the most part, I was entirely successful.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, I yesterday managed to avoid using any of the &#8220;Thanksgiving Phrases to Avoid&#8221; given on my Forgotten English desk calendar:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There may be noticed a ludicrously vulgar refinement of speech common to pseudo \u00c3\u00a9l\u00c3\u00a9gants, namely the use of synonymes so awfully select as might well astound a [perfectionist]. We heard of one young man in America who, desiring some stuffing with his turkey, asked for &#8216;some of the insertion,&#8217; exquisite refinement with a vengeance. [And] the old joke of &#8216;decapitating the luminaries,&#8217; for snuffing the candles, is continually and seriously being realized in America. Really well-educated people&#8230;are infinitely more careless in their expressions than those less favored, whilst the elevated style, occasionally necessary in literature, would be considered by gentlemen vulgarly pedantic in ordinary society.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah yes, that old joke about decapitating the luminaries. That had high society rolling in the aisles back in 1844.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made a concerted effort to do absolutely nothing today, and I must say, for the most part, I was entirely successful. Luckily, I yesterday managed to avoid using any of the &#8220;Thanksgiving Phrases to Avoid&#8221; given on my Forgotten English desk calendar: There may be noticed a ludicrously vulgar refinement of speech common to &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5278\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[92,28],"class_list":["post-5278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-history","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}