{"id":784,"date":"2008-10-12T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-12T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=784"},"modified":"2008-10-12T17:25:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-12T21:25:00","slug":"a-new-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"A New Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My crusade against the word &#8220;iconic&#8221; has been documented in part <a href=\"http:\/\/bastart.blogspot.com\/search?q=iconic\">here <\/a>on B A Start.  I swear, not three days go by before I see it used.  I refuse to believe this is due to some kind of increased awareness &#8212; we all know it was <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Superman Returns<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I was doing some reading this afternoon and found a suitable replacement: <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/paradigmatic\">paradigmatic<\/a>.  And this in an essay published in the Spring of 2007.  Please, journalists bloggers and ad writers, start using this word as an alternate.  I&#8217;m starting to lose it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My crusade against the word &#8220;iconic&#8221; has been documented in part here on B A Start. I swear, not three days go by before I see it used. I refuse to believe this is due to some kind of increased awareness &#8212; we all know it was Superman Returns. I was doing some reading this [&hellip;]<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}