{"id":3983,"date":"2007-02-28T15:53:38","date_gmt":"2007-02-28T23:53:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/02\/28\/the-root-of-the-problem\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T11:58:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T19:58:44","slug":"the-root-of-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2007\/02\/28\/the-root-of-the-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"The root of the problem&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an aside to a post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestranger.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/metro_mystery_of_the_day\" title=\"Slog: Metro Mystery of the Day\">an altercation on a Seattle Metro bus<\/a>, David Schmader has this to say about the phrase, &#8220;I don&#8217;t know who I&#8217;m supposed to root for&#8230;.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  It\u2019s nothing really, but the grammatically preferable version of this phrase is <strong>\u201cfor whom I\u2019m supposed to root,\u201d<\/strong> which is the most hilarious collection of words I\u2019ve encountered since \u201cAcademy Award-winning screenwriter Ben Affleck.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s nothing really, but the grammatically preferable version of this phrase is &#8216;for whom I\u2019m supposed to root,&#8217; which is the most hilarious collection of words I\u2019ve encountered since &#8216;Academy Award-winning screenwriter Ben Affleck.&#8217;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2043],"tags":[6,16],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}