{"id":3713,"date":"2007-10-07T01:42:24","date_gmt":"2007-10-07T05:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/wp\/?p=3713"},"modified":"2007-10-07T01:42:24","modified_gmt":"2007-10-07T05:42:24","slug":"no_such_thing_as_bad_language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/no_such_thing_as_bad_language\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;no such thing as bad language&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"lewisblack.jpg\" src=\"images\/lewisblack.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"217\" align=\"right\" \/><br \/>\nWhy do I keep forgetting how much I enjoy Lewis Black&#8217;s stand-up? I caught his most recent HBO special tonight, 2006&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/amazon.com\/o\/ASIN\/B000GTLQW6\/cheesedip\/ref=nosim\/\">Red, White &#038; Screwed<\/a>, and was charmed all over again by his curmudgeonliness. One theme of the show is how Black, a legendary pottymouth, is annoyed by having to tiptoe around cussing. He says,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>There is no such thing as bad language. I don&#8217;t believe that anymore. It&#8217;s ridiculous. They call it a debasing of the language. No! We are adults. These are the words we use to express frustration, rage, and anger&#8230; in order that we don&#8217;t pick up a tire and beat the shit out of someone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do I keep forgetting how much I enjoy Lewis Black&#8217;s stand-up? I caught his most recent HBO special tonight, 2006&#8217;s Red, White &#038; Screwed,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cheesedip","category-movable-type"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lia.bulaong.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}