{"id":14888,"date":"2003-05-01T19:40:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-01T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/01\/bling-bling-is-the-shiznit\/"},"modified":"2003-05-01T19:40:00","modified_gmt":"2003-05-01T19:40:00","slug":"bling-bling-is-the-shiznit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/01\/bling-bling-is-the-shiznit\/","title":{"rendered":"Bling-bling Is The Shiznit?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a move sure to horrify lexicologists, teachers, and proper English speakers everywhere, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/ent\/pop\/articles\/0426blingbling26.html\" target=\"_blank\">The OED (Oxford English Dictionary) is adding &ldquo;bling-bling&rdquo; to its newest edition<\/a>.  I&rsquo;m all for contemporizing the lexicon with words and phrases that have made it into the vernacular, but this just strikes me as wrong on way too many levels.  I suppose that makes me a hypocrite, but I don&rsquo;t care. :-p<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-200229036?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a move sure to horrify lexicologists, teachers, and proper English speakers everywhere, The OED (Oxford English Dictionary) is adding &ldquo;bling-bling&rdquo; to its newest edition. I&rsquo;m all for contemporizing the lexicon with words and phrases that have made it into the vernacular, but this just strikes me as wrong on way too many levels. I &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/05\/01\/bling-bling-is-the-shiznit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bling-bling Is The Shiznit?!&#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-14888","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\/14888","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=14888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}