{"id":343,"date":"2008-12-17T19:28:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T00:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2008\/12\/17\/tell-it"},"modified":"2009-04-28T11:06:56","modified_gmt":"2009-04-28T16:06:56","slug":"tell-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/2008\/12\/17\/tell-it","title":{"rendered":"Tell It Like It Is"},"content":{"rendered":"

That is one overused phrase.<\/p>\n

“Oh, yeah, he’s tellin’ it like it is!”<\/p>\n

Heh. Cute.<\/p>\n

On NYRA and similar places, it’s a nice substitute for, well, actually saying something substantial.<\/p>\n

Then I heard it during the ending of the Eurythmics’ version of “Winter Wonderland”.<\/p>\n

I don’t know. Winder Wonderland doesn’t strike me as a “tell it like it is” moment.<\/p>\n

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That is one overused phrase. “Oh, yeah, he’s tellin’ it like it is!” Heh. Cute. On NYRA and similar places, it’s a nice substitute for, well, actually saying something substantial. Then I heard it during the ending of the Eurythmics’ version of “Winter Wonderland”. I don’t know. Winder Wonderland doesn’t strike me as a “tell … Continue reading “Tell It Like It Is”<\/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":[21,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christmas-time","category-musical-musing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eightminefortress.com\/surewhynot\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}