{"id":1254,"date":"2008-01-11T16:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-12T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/01\/11\/phrase-of-the-week\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T16:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T00:01:00","slug":"phrase-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/2008\/01\/11\/phrase-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Phrase of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Browsing the web from Guatemala is always an adventure. Works okay when there&#8217;s electricity, which hasn&#8217;t been very steady while I&#8217;ve been down here over the last few weeks (there have been some big blackouts here related to a sketchy power grid, and unusually intense windstorms). What sucks worse than the lights dimming, or DSL or sat bombing out? <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">Constant Google cockblocking.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the complete post and further discussion at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2008\/01\/10\/guatemala-google-is.html\">&#8220;(Guatemala) Google is sorry.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In related news, I was a bit surprised that the <span style=\"font-style:italic;\">San Francisco Chronicle<\/span> would choose to bleep out &#8220;cock&#8221; in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/blogs\/sfgate\/detail?blogid=5&amp;entry_id=23307\">Tim Goodman&#8217;s TV Talk Machine<\/a> podcast, but allow the compound &#8220;cockblocking&#8221; to remain uncensored.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, former US President Jimmy Carter would never resort to using such crude language.  He is much more eloquent than that.<\/p>\n<div><a target=\"theonion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/opinion\/i_got_what_america_needs_right?utm_source=Distributed&amp;utm_medium=Embedded%2BHTML&amp;utm_campaign=Widgets\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/files\/images\/carter.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"I Got What America Needs Right Here\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><a target=\"theonion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content?utm_source=Distributed&amp;utm_medium=Embedded%2BHTML&amp;utm_campaign=Widgets\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/themes\/onion\/assets\/logos\/onion_super_tiny.png\" width=\"92\" height=\"12\" alt=\"The Onion\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"font-size:default!important;line-height:default!important;\"><a target=\"theonion\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/content\/opinion\/i_got_what_america_needs_right?utm_source=Distributed&amp;utm_medium=Embedded%2BHTML&amp;utm_campaign=Widgets\">I Got What America Needs Right Here<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>     Sometimes I&#8217;m a little  stupid, maybe, a little slow in the head, so I&#8217;m wondering if you can help me  get something straight&#8230;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/statistics.theonion.com\/b\/ss\/theonionprod\/1\/H.6--NS\/1234567?pe=lnk_d&amp;pev2=I%20Got%20What%20America%20Needs%20Right%20Here&amp;pev1=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theonion.com%2Fcontent%2Fopinion%2Fi_got_what_america_needs_right%3Futm_source%3DDistributed%26utm_medium%3DEmbedded%252BHTML%26utm_campaign%3DWidgets\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"display:none;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of BoingBoing: Browsing the web from Guatemala is always an adventure. Works okay when there&#8217;s electricity, which hasn&#8217;t been very steady while I&#8217;ve been down here over the last few weeks (there have been some big blackouts here related&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[32,56,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-tech","category-tv","category-writing"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.curtiscchen.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}