{"id":62,"date":"2004-11-17T11:52:04","date_gmt":"2004-11-17T17:52:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stardel.com\/eg\/?p=62"},"modified":"2004-11-17T11:52:04","modified_gmt":"2004-11-17T17:52:04","slug":"strange-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2004\/11\/strange-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I used the phrase &#8220;Enquiring Minds want to know&#8221; in a previous post and thought that &#8220;Enquiring Minds&#8221; would be a good blog title so I googled and found this site:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.yaelf.com\/aueFAQ\/\">alt.usage.english.FAQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I found they have lots of interesting tidbits of english usage and origins of phrases and words. I thought their explanation of using verbs with group nouns (e.g. company, herd, flock, pod) was very edifying.<\/p>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t see an EM blog pop out of the google search but I didn&#8217;t look past the first page and it had 44,000 hits.<\/p>\n<p>Oh yes, The EM phrase I started with was a result of the National Enquirer ad campaign in the &#8217;80s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used the phrase &#8220;Enquiring Minds want to know&#8221; in a previous post and thought that &#8220;Enquiring Minds&#8221; would be a good blog title so I googled and found this site:alt.usage.english.FAQ. I found they have lots of interesting tidbits of english usage and origins of phrases and words. I thought their explanation of using verbs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/2004\/11\/strange-links\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Strange links<\/span> <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":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4NpF-10","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stardel.com\/eg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}