{"id":1373,"date":"2012-01-22T23:01:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T23:01:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1373"},"modified":"2012-01-23T00:02:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T00:02:47","slug":"not-awesome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/22\/not-awesome\/","title":{"rendered":"Not awesome?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like many others, I\u2019m probably guilty of overusing the word \u201cawesome\u201d. It\u2019s a good thing I don\u2019t live in LA (although I would love the sunshine), because one man is on a mission to ban the word.<\/p>\n<p>British-born but LA based poet and journalist John Tottenham has launched CPSOA \u2013 the Campaign to Stamp Out Awesome. His headquarters is a bookstore which he is trying to turn into an \u201cawesome-free zone\u201d. Tottenham argues that the word has been so overused it has been rendered meaningless. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tottenham already is looking toward other cliches to conquer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Other words will be addressed once we get rid of awesome,&#8221; Tottenham promises. &#8220;&#8216;It&#8217;s all good.&#8217; That&#8217;s definitely crying out to be done.&#8221; (Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2012\/jan\/06\/local\/la-me-holland-20120106\">LA Times<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Do you see the problem with awesome? Or is Tottenham just a grouch?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like many others, I\u2019m probably guilty of overusing the word \u201cawesome\u201d. It\u2019s a good thing I don\u2019t live in LA (although I would love the sunshine), because one man is on a mission to ban the word. British-born but LA based poet and journalist John Tottenham has launched CPSOA \u2013 the Campaign to Stamp Out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,3,44],"tags":[1094,3,44],"class_list":["post-1373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-english","category-words","tag-campaign-to-stamp-out-awesome","tag-english","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1373"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1375,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1373\/revisions\/1375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}