{"id":25765,"date":"2010-07-19T11:23:48","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T11:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2010\/07\/19\/this-blog-refudiates-sarah-pal\/"},"modified":"2010-07-19T11:23:48","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T11:23:48","slug":"this-blog-refudiates-sarah-pal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/19\/this-blog-refudiates-sarah-pal\/","title":{"rendered":"This Blog Refudiates Sarah Palin"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\nThe Twittersphere erupted Sunday when former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin tweeted that &#8220;peaceful Muslims&#8221; should &#8220;refudiate&#8221; the mosque being built in New York City near where the Twin Towers once stood. Palin found herself the butt of many tweets, as refudiate, of course, is not a word in the English language.<\/p>\n<p>After deleting the offending tweet, Palin replaced it with another calling on &#8220;peaceful New Yorkers&#8221; to &#8220;refute the Ground Zero mosque plan,&#8221; which only added to the confusion because it would appear the word she was looking for was &#8220;repudiate.&#8221; Then came the kicker: To quell the vicious Twitter-ribbing she was receiving, Palin unleashed yet another tweet comparing herself to no less than the Bard of Avon.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/44\/2010\/07\/palin-invents-word-compares-he.html?wprss=44\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Twittersphere erupted Sunday when former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin tweeted that &#8220;peaceful Muslims&#8221; should &#8220;refudiate&#8221; the mosque being built in New York City near where the Twin Towers once stood. Palin found herself the butt of many tweets, as refudiate, of course, is not a word in the English language. After deleting the offending &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/19\/this-blog-refudiates-sarah-pal\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This Blog Refudiates Sarah Palin<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6Hz","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}