{"id":524,"date":"2012-10-15T05:00:43","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=524"},"modified":"2012-10-14T20:52:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T03:52:32","slug":"the-quieted-scare-convention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/the-quieted-scare-convention\/","title":{"rendered":"The Quieted Scare Convention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows (&quot;everyone knows&quot;) about &quot;scare quotes,&quot; where you enclose a phrase in quotation marks to indicate that the literal interpretation of the words should be regarded with skepticism, but sometimes I do this thing where I'll use a phrase normally and then <em>repeat<\/em> it in scare quotes <em>and<\/em> parentheses, as if to say, &quot;I do partially intend this sincerely, but also with some irony or skepticism, although not so much as to justify outright scare quotes.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this practice immediately suggests the &quot;dual&quot; (dual) practice of using a phrase with scare quotes and then repeating it unquoted in parentheses, as if to say, &quot;I do partially intend this ironically or in a way that should be regarded with skepticism, but also with a some sincerity, although not so much as to justify not using any scare quotes at all.&quot;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows (&quot;everyone knows&quot;) about &quot;scare quotes,&quot; where you enclose a phrase in quotation marks to indicate that the literal interpretation of the words should be regarded with skepticism, but sometimes I do this thing where I'll use a phrase &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/the-quieted-scare-convention\/\">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":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":527,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/524\/revisions\/527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}