{"id":4206,"date":"2009-06-26T11:51:02","date_gmt":"2009-06-26T18:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=4206"},"modified":"2009-06-26T11:51:02","modified_gmt":"2009-06-26T18:51:02","slug":"thicket-of-lies-sank-an-apostrophe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2009\/06\/26\/thicket-of-lies-sank-an-apostrophe\/","title":{"rendered":"Thicket of Lies sank an apostrophe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Thicket of Lies Sank Adams Case&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 The Oregonian reports.\u00c2\u00a0 Either\u00c2\u00a0dishonestly or misleadingly.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the primary lie comes out of Beau Breedlove&#8217;s credibility problem.\u00c2\u00a0 Adams&#8217;s lawyer grabbed him at the go and had him sign an affadivit declining any sexual conduct before the age of 18.\u00c2\u00a0 This conflcited with his later admission of the bathroom stall kiss.\u00c2\u00a0 And couple this with Breedlove&#8217;s perceived flakiness in his fifteen minutes of fame.<\/p>\n<p>But that headline.\u00c2\u00a0 Surely the Oregonian has made up its mind on whence where Adams should go.\u00c2\u00a0 And they can turn over their editorial page to a nonstop drumbeat of &#8220;Oust Adams Now&#8221; and remain firmly in their right.\u00c2\u00a0 Meanwhile, the front page headline &#8220;Thicket of Lies Sank Adams Case&#8221; is as narrowly correct as the Kroeger case was narrowly legalistically founded.\u00c2\u00a0 Clearly the Oregonian would like an implied apostrophe &#8212; &#8220;A Thicket of Lies&#8221; having indeed\u00c2\u00a0sank &#8220;The Adams Case&#8221; as opposed to &#8220;Adams&#8217;s Case&#8221;* having been sank by &#8220;A Thicket of Lies&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Back to Breedlove for a moment.\u00c2\u00a0 Regarding this sentence in the <a href=\"Beau Breedlove is a puzzle wrapped in an enigma. \">Willamette Week&#8217;s pull<\/a>:<br \/>\n<em>Beau Breedlove is a puzzle wrapped in an enigma.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Perhaps you can say that, but there&#8217;s nothing in the following to support such.\u00c2\u00a0 He&#8217;s cahsed in on his 15 minutes of fame for a small fortune, and has developed a passive \/ aggressive stance toward the media &#8212; the latter aided in part with being pitted with, for instance,\u00c2\u00a0the Oregonian text message taunt of &#8212; what was it?\u00c2\u00a0 &#8220;Forgot to mention that one, eh?&#8221;, when such and such a revelation was made.<\/p>\n<p>Really, I get the feeling the reporters of various news outlets are so entrenched in this media bubble that they can&#8217;t quite get outside of it and recognize a more than one-dimensional interaction with them.<br \/>\n(Incidentally, The Oregonian<a href=\"http:\/\/blogtown.portlandmercury.com\/BlogtownPDX\/archives\/2009\/06\/23\/theres-a-new-thicket-in-town\"> back-tracked<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/>\n* My Junior Year High School English teacher &#8220;finalized&#8221; my understanding of the rules of apostrphes.\u00c2\u00a0 Though, if a superior demands no &#8220;s&#8221; to follow a name\/word that ends with &#8220;s&#8221;, I&#8217;ll comply &#8212; &#8217;tis the one lesson I picked up from my Sixth grader teacher.\u00c2\u00a0 Which brings me to some Style and Grammer news:\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=105828991\">The British have dropped the &#8216;I Before E Except after C&#8217; rule due to &#8220;Too Many Exceptions&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Thicket of Lies Sank Adams Case&#8221;.\u00c2\u00a0 The Oregonian reports.\u00c2\u00a0 Either\u00c2\u00a0dishonestly or misleadingly. Well, the primary lie comes out of Beau Breedlove&#8217;s credibility problem.\u00c2\u00a0 Adams&#8217;s lawyer grabbed him at the go and had him sign an affadivit declining any sexual conduct before the age of 18.\u00c2\u00a0 This conflcited with his later admission of the bathroom stall [&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-4206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206","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=4206"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4208,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4206\/revisions\/4208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}