{"id":3285,"date":"2009-01-05T08:46:56","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T15:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/01\/05\/whats-in-a-name\/"},"modified":"2009-01-05T08:46:56","modified_gmt":"2009-01-05T15:46:56","slug":"whats-in-a-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/01\/05\/whats-in-a-name\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s in a name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been nearly a month since the Bernie Madoff scandal broke.\u00c2\u00a0 And in all this time I have somehow managed to avoid the big punchline of a headline or news-clip&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Bernard Madoff MADE OFF with $50 billion from&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Until yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally I saw it on the teevee.\u00c2\u00a0 In the meantime I have to wonder how I avoided the obvious turn of phrase and play off of names.\u00c2\u00a0 The google reveals a plethora of &#8220;Madoff Made off&#8221; headlines and by-stories, plenty from victims of the ponzi scheme themselves, &#8220;Madoff Made Off With My Money&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe I heard the &#8220;Madoff Made Off&#8221; deal and somehow had it slip right past me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been nearly a month since the Bernie Madoff scandal broke.\u00c2\u00a0 And in all this time I have somehow managed to avoid the big punchline of a headline or news-clip&#8230; &#8220;Bernard Madoff MADE OFF with $50 billion from&#8230;&#8221; Until yesterday.\u00c2\u00a0 Finally I saw it on the teevee.\u00c2\u00a0 In the meantime I have to wonder how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3285\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}