{"id":2679,"date":"2003-03-05T23:06:33","date_gmt":"2003-03-05T17:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alpha.ravikiran.com\/blog\/2003\/03\/05\/mixed-metaphor-and-overuse-alert\/"},"modified":"2003-03-05T23:06:33","modified_gmt":"2003-03-05T17:36:33","slug":"mixed-metaphor-and-overuse-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/vintage\/200303\/mixed-metaphor-and-overuse-alert\/","title":{"rendered":"Mixed Metaphor (and overuse) Alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><cite><small>Now that the <b>going is good<\/b>, the cricketers can <b>stamp the feet<\/b> and <b>call the shots<\/b>; but the <b>knives are out<\/b>. The next time Ganguly&#8217;s team <b>stumbles<\/b>, the <b>men behind the mikes<\/b> will be ready <b>tools and tongues sharpened<\/b>. The <b>saga<\/b> of India&#8217;s dramatic World Cup has just added on a <b>new sub-plot<\/b><\/small><\/cite>(<span class = \"source\">India Today, March 10, 2003 &#8211; The other battle <\/span> &#8211;  Paper version. I am too lazy to hunt down the online version)<br \/>Are they trying to make up for Sidhu&#8217;s absence or something?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that the going is good, the cricketers can stamp the feet and call the shots; but the knives are out. The next time Ganguly&#8217;s team stumbles, the men behind the mikes will be ready tools and tongues sharpened. The saga of India&#8217;s dramatic World Cup has just added on a new sub-plot(India Today, March [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ravikiran.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}