{"id":14671,"date":"2003-08-05T11:34:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-05T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/05\/the-100-worst-groaners\/"},"modified":"2003-08-05T11:34:00","modified_gmt":"2003-08-05T11:34:00","slug":"the-100-worst-groaners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/05\/the-100-worst-groaners\/","title":{"rendered":"The 100 Worst &#8220;Groaners&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <i>Newswriting.com<\/i> reports,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A &ldquo;groaner&rdquo; is a hackneyed, overblown, stuffy or just plain silly clich\u00e9 that turns up time after time in news scripts. Groaners show laziness on the part of writers, disrespect for the folks watching, and a general contempt for lively English. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newswriting.com\/groaners.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Here are some of the worst offenders<\/a>. You\u2019ll recognize them immediately, so get ready to groan!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note to self: stop using the phrase &ldquo;In the wake of&hellip;&rdquo; :-p<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106008326243662006?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Newswriting.com reports, A &ldquo;groaner&rdquo; is a hackneyed, overblown, stuffy or just plain silly clich\u00e9 that turns up time after time in news scripts. Groaners show laziness on the part of writers, disrespect for the folks watching, and a general contempt for lively English. Here are some of the worst offenders. You\u2019ll recognize them immediately, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/08\/05\/the-100-worst-groaners\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The 100 Worst &#8220;Groaners&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14671\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}