{"id":4238,"date":"2009-05-17T00:06:16","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T04:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4238"},"modified":"2009-05-17T00:06:16","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T04:06:16","slug":"the-most-pernicious-phrase-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-most-pernicious-phrase-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"The most pernicious phrase of the month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The winner is a staple of all authentic Anglican Machiavellianism. It is:<\/p>\n<p><strong>The<\/strong> <strong>Listening Process<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The winning phrase combines all the necessary qualities:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It beguiles the na\u00efve into taking it at face value; really, no-one is listening because they are either asleep or talking.<\/li>\n<li>It is more disingenuous than Fred Hiltz\u2019s smile.<\/li>\n<li>Its potential to stun is rivalled only by a taser.<\/li>\n<li>After half an hour it causes a nose-bleed.<\/li>\n<li>Like any phrase ending in \u201cprocess\u201d it is designed to prevent the previous word of the phrase occurring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The winner is a staple of all authentic Anglican Machiavellianism. It is: The Listening Process. The winning phrase combines all the necessary qualities: It beguiles the na\u00efve into taking it at face value; really, no-one is listening because they are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-most-pernicious-phrase-of-the-month\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,181],"tags":[2032,2171],"class_list":["post-4238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","category-humour","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-humour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}