{"id":5665,"date":"2019-01-11T13:18:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T18:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=5665"},"modified":"2019-01-11T15:49:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T20:49:33","slug":"what-is-them-talking-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/01\/11\/what-is-them-talking-about\/","title":{"rendered":"What is them talking about?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_5664\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5664\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw011119-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5664\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw011119-1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"What is them talking about?\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw011119-1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw011119-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw011119-1-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/aw011119-1.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5664\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">What is them talking about?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Them is&#8230; wait. *They is&#8230; no, that&#8217;s not right, either. I&#8217;ve gotten my verbs all mixed up. Hang on a second while I reboot. &#8230; There! Now I feel more like myselves. *I* am talking about how I&#8217;d prefer to be talked about in the third person singular, since I&#8217;m gender fluid, and also happen to be kind of plural. You know how some deities are one being &amp; many manifestations? (Like Shiva the destroyer, Shiva the creator, etc.) I&#8217;m the other way around. Many aspects, one manifestation. And please, please, distinguish me with the definite article &#8220;The.&#8221; As Bertrand Russell said, &#8220;Now &#8216;the,&#8217; when it is strictly used, involves uniqueness.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Them is&#8230; wait. *They is&#8230; no, that&#8217;s not right, either. I&#8217;ve gotten my verbs all mixed up. Hang on a second while I reboot. &#8230; There! Now I feel more like myselves. *I* am talking about how I&#8217;d prefer to be talked about in the third person singular, since I&#8217;m gender fluid, and also happen &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/01\/11\/what-is-them-talking-about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is them talking about?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5665"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5668,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5665\/revisions\/5668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}