{"id":12543,"date":"2014-07-15T16:37:45","date_gmt":"2014-07-15T21:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12543"},"modified":"2014-07-15T16:37:45","modified_gmt":"2014-07-15T21:37:45","slug":"wapo-the-curious-grammar-of-police-shootings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12543","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: The curious grammar of police shootings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/the-watch\/wp\/2014\/07\/14\/the-curious-grammar-of-police-shootings\/\">The curious grammar of police shootings<\/a> by Radley Balko: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You\u2019re probably familiar with the weaselly way politicians tend to apologize when they\u2019ve been caught red-handed. The most famous example is the use of the line, mistakes were made. Use of the passive voice in an admission of wrongdoing has become so common that the political consultant William Schneider suggested a few years ago that it be referred to as the \u201cpast exonerative\u201d tense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: The curious grammar of police shootings by Radley Balko: You\u2019re probably familiar with the weaselly way politicians tend to apologize when they\u2019ve been caught red-handed. The most famous example is the use of the line, mistakes were made. Use &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=12543\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12544,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12543\/revisions\/12544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}