{"id":584,"date":"2012-10-25T08:41:51","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=584"},"modified":"2012-10-25T08:41:51","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:41:51","slug":"its-not-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/its-not-that\/","title":{"rendered":"\"It's Not That\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oftentimes I initially want to write \"It's not that X, but rather Y\" to mean \"You might think I'm implying that X is true, so I want to emphasize that X is false; Y is true, and that's what explains my position,\" but I worry that this idiom is ambiguous; someone is likely to interpret it as meaning, \"X might be true, but it's not the relevant consideration; my position is actually explained by Y (which does not necessarily contradict X)\", which doesn't mean the same thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oftentimes I initially want to write \"It's not that X, but rather Y\" to mean \"You might think I'm implying that X is true, so I want to emphasize that X is false; Y is true, and that's what explains &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2012\/10\/its-not-that\/\">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\/584"}],"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=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}