{"id":657,"date":"2010-03-17T10:57:10","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betsybuchanan.com\/?p=657"},"modified":"2010-03-17T10:57:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T15:57:10","slug":"o-x-y-m-o-r-o-n-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/2010\/03\/17\/o-x-y-m-o-r-o-n-s\/","title":{"rendered":"O x y m o r o n s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks?<\/p>\n<p>2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand?<\/p>\n<p>3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know?<\/p>\n<p>4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words?<\/p>\n<p>5. Why do we say something is out of whack? What is a whack?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a06. Why does &#8220;slow down&#8221; and &#8220;slow up&#8221; mean the same thing?<\/p>\n<p>7. Why does &#8220;fat chance&#8221; and &#8220;slim chance&#8221; mean the same thing?<\/p>\n<p>8. Why do &#8220;tug&#8221; boats push their barges?<\/p>\n<p>9. Why do we sing &#8220;Take me out to the ball game&#8221; when we are already there?<\/p>\n<p>10. Why are they called &#8221; stands&#8221; when they are made for sitting?<\/p>\n<p>11. Why is it called &#8220;after dark&#8221; when it really is &#8220;after light&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>12. Doesn&#8217;t &#8220;expecting the unexpected&#8221; make the unexpected expected?<\/p>\n<p>13. Why are a &#8220;wise man&#8221; and a &#8220;wise guy&#8221; opposites?<\/p>\n<p>14. Why do &#8220;overlook&#8221; and &#8220;oversee&#8221; mean opposite things?<\/p>\n<p>15. Why is &#8220;phonics&#8221; not spelled the way it sounds?<\/p>\n<p>16. If work is so terrific, why do they have to pay you to do it?<\/p>\n<p>17. If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?<\/p>\n<p>18. If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular?<\/p>\n<p>19. If you are cross-eyed and have dyslexia, can you read all right?<\/p>\n<p>20. Why is bra singular and panties plural?<\/p>\n<p>21. Why do you press harder on the buttons of a remote control when you know the batteries are dead?<\/p>\n<p>22. Why do we put suits in garment bags and garments in a suitcase?<\/p>\n<p>23. How come abbreviated is such a long word?<\/p>\n<p>24. Why do we wash bath towels? Aren&#8217;t we clean when we use them?<\/p>\n<p>25. Why doesn&#8217;t glue stick to the inside of the bottle?<\/p>\n<p>26. Why do they call it a TV set when you only have one?<\/p>\n<p>27. Christmas &#8211; What other time of the year do you sit in front of a dead tree and eat candy out of your socks?<\/p>\n<p>28. Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway ? I dunno, why do we?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Is it good if a vacuum really sucks? 2. Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand? 3. If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? 4. If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the words? 5. Why do we say something &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/2010\/03\/17\/o-x-y-m-o-r-o-n-s\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;O x y m o r o n s&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/bettybuchanan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}