{"id":4602,"date":"2009-06-10T19:06:47","date_gmt":"2009-06-10T23:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=4602"},"modified":"2009-06-10T19:06:47","modified_gmt":"2009-06-10T23:06:47","slug":"the-art-of-cliche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-art-of-cliche\/","title":{"rendered":"The art of clich\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is wrong with this sentence:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As North America\u2019s premier grower and distributor of turnips, we need to be intentional about making healthy and wise choices about our future.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Nothing other than the fact that you could replace <em>North America\u2019s premier grower and distributor of turnips <\/em>with <em>a Diocesan Church <\/em>and the sentence would convey no more or less meaning. And that is one of the church\u2019s problems: having abandoned the expression of true meaning found in the Gospel, it has opted for spewing forth the same empty cant espoused by the illiterate inhabitants of every tenth-rate boardroom in North America.<\/p>\n<p>The particular gem in question is from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vancouver.anglican.ca\/Portals\/0\/Images\/Programs\/StrategicReportForSynod2009.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Diocese of New Westminster<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is wrong with this sentence: As North America\u2019s premier grower and distributor of turnips, we need to be intentional about making healthy and wise choices about our future. Nothing other than the fact that you could replace North America\u2019s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-art-of-cliche\/\">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":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[2031,2032],"class_list":["post-4602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-angst","tag-anglican-angst","tag-anglican-church-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602","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=4602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}