{"id":23774,"date":"2017-01-10T16:37:42","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T00:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23774"},"modified":"2017-01-10T16:37:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T00:37:42","slug":"colorful-cliches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/colorful-cliches\/","title":{"rendered":"A Case for Colorful Clich\u00e9s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/burro.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Stubborn as a mule&#8221; at the annual <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/calico-days.html\">Calico Days<\/a> in Yermo, California<\/p>\n<p>Technology has shaped contemporary\u00a0language, culture and interactions in amazing ways that aren&#8217;t always appreciated. Most hated, misused and overused words, phrases and terms include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Between you and I<\/li>\n<li>So,<\/li>\n<li>Self, selfie<\/li>\n<li>Millennials (disliked by majority of so called millennials, age 18-34)<\/li>\n<li>Myriad<\/li>\n<li>Fake news<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>A Case for Colorful Clich\u00e9s<\/h2>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All dressed up and no where to go;&#8221; &#8220;Absence makes the heart grow fonder,&#8221; &#8220;Catch my drift?&#8221; These are clich\u00e9s, phrases someone thought up which became popular and used over and over again.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve always loved these expressions. Yet, journalism teachers and editors at top newspapers and magazines told me not to use them. I think they add a lot of color and are appreciated by most readers. I&#8217;ve often tried to slip them in, anyway. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/culture\/cliches.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stubborn as a mule&#8221; at the annual Calico Days in Yermo, California Technology has shaped contemporary\u00a0language, culture and interactions in amazing ways that aren&#8217;t always appreciated. Most hated, misused and overused words, phrases and terms include: Between you and I So, Self, selfie Millennials (disliked by majority of so called millennials, age 18-34) Myriad Fake [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23774"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}