{"id":1668,"date":"2009-07-02T09:11:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T09:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/?p=1668"},"modified":"2011-10-04T18:08:13","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T18:08:13","slug":"carry-on-swearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/2009\/07\/carry-on-swearing\/","title":{"rendered":"Carry On Swearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2. Carry On Swearing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Freaking, freakin&#8217;, frak, frakkin&#8217;, feck, feckin&#8217; <\/em>&#8211; all these emasculated, Bowdlerised words mean but one thing: the craven cowardice and hypocrisy of the user.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fuck<\/strong> is a good, honest word. It has lasted well over a thousand years, and it is rich with usages and subtlety. English is an excellent language, with its core Anglo-Saxon giving it a realism and humanity which the Latin clothing does not hide.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t want to swear, then you don&#8217;t have to. But if you&#8217;re going to swear, do it full-heartedly, and mean it. It&#8217;s good for your health. <\/p>\n<p>Join the Facebook cause <A HREF=\"http:\/\/apps.facebook.com\/causes\/276021?m=3f1cca43\">The Campaign for Real Swearing<\/A>. Why the fuck not?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/health\/story\/2007\/10\/17\/swearing-study.html\">Workplace profanity boosts morale.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=89127830\">Why Kids Curse<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/29681795\/\">Why Swearing Feels Great<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><IMG SRC=\"http:\/\/s0.causes.com\/photos\/ha\/wk\/H7\/UB\/vy\/7r\/oo\/CIJ.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>The second in a series of proposals designed to make all our lives easier, more fulfilling, lovelier journeys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2. Carry On Swearing. Freaking, freakin&#8217;, frak, frakkin&#8217;, feck, feckin&#8217; &#8211; all these emasculated, Bowdlerised words mean but one thing: the craven cowardice and hypocrisy of the user. Fuck is a good, honest word. It has lasted well over a thousand years, and it is rich with usages and subtlety. English is an excellent language, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[276,714],"tags":[717,715,716,382,233],"class_list":["post-1668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flip-side","category-swearing-2","tag-action","tag-anglo-saxon","tag-call","tag-profanity","tag-swearing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1668"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2949,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1668\/revisions\/2949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theothersideofeverything.com\/flip\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}