{"id":5740,"date":"2011-03-15T08:52:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-15T15:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=5740"},"modified":"2011-03-15T08:52:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-15T15:52:56","slug":"bus-plunge-journalese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/?p=5740","title":{"rendered":"Bus Plunge Journalese"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"130\" height=\"130\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5741\" style=\"margin: 10px; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 130px; height: 130px;\" title=\"blinky\" src=\"http:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/blinky.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Headline to an article about the third reactor explosion in Japan: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/nationworld\/2014497741_quake15.html\" target=\"_blank\">Spewing radiation prompts warning<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>C&#8217;mon, journalists, does radiation always have to spew?\u00a0 Can&#8217;t it emanate, spread, propagate, or otherwise pour into the atmosphere?\u00a0 Why must it spew?<\/p>\n<p>When Nevil Shute wrote <em>On the Beach<\/em>, did he make his radiation spew?\u00a0 No, he didn&#8217;t, and yet his radiation managed to cover the earth and kill us all in the end.<\/p>\n<p>In the coming days and weeks we&#8217;re going to to relearn Cold War words we thought we&#8217;d safely forgotten: roentgens, rads, rems, curies, sieverts, perhaps even the dread Becquerel.\u00a0 But let us all agree right now, so there&#8217;s no debate or confusion later: radiation must always spew, just as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bus_plunge\" target=\"_blank\">buses must always plunge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Headline to an article about the third reactor explosion in Japan: &#8220;Spewing radiation prompts warning.&#8221; C&#8217;mon, journalists, does radiation always have to spew?\u00a0 Can&#8217;t it emanate, spread, propagate, or otherwise pour into the atmosphere?\u00a0 Why must it spew? When Nevil Shute wrote On the Beach, did he make his radiation spew?\u00a0 No, he didn&#8217;t, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,16,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events","category-media","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5740"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5743,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740\/revisions\/5743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwoodford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}