{"id":7292,"date":"2016-04-02T10:00:50","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T15:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=7292"},"modified":"2016-04-02T01:35:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T06:35:04","slug":"this-week-in-verbing-weirds-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/this-week-in-verbing-weirds-language\/","title":{"rendered":"This week in &#8216;Verbing Weirds Language&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 24 hours after the filing deadline for county offices, Linn County Supervisor Linda Langston, who had already said she wasn&#8217;t running for re-election, gave her two weeks&#8217; notice of resignation. (How <em>conveeeenient<\/em>.) Whatever the implications of the timing, she <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thegazette.com\/linn-county-supervisor-langston-stepping-down-earlier-than-originally-planned-20160401\">committed a larger unpardonable sin<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThis is actually suiting my schedule, not anyone else\u2019s &#8230; I\u2019m stepping down just before I start another job,\u201d Langston said. \u201cIf I wanted to <strong>architect<\/strong> this, I would have waited until May 1.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Can I find something on the Internet to express my reaction to this? [Pause.] Can I find something <em>PG-rated<\/em> on the Internet to express my reaction to this?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/NW54s93.gif\" width=\"500\" height=\"213\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Close enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than 24 hours after the filing deadline for county offices, Linn County Supervisor Linda Langston, who had already said she wasn&#8217;t running for re-election, gave her two weeks&#8217; notice of resignation. (How conveeeenient.) Whatever the implications of the timing, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/04\/this-week-in-verbing-weirds-language\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7292"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7298,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7292\/revisions\/7298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}