{"id":2299,"date":"2003-04-09T21:15:23","date_gmt":"2003-04-10T00:15:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/bb\/viewtopic.php?p=396"},"modified":"2003-04-09T21:15:23","modified_gmt":"2003-04-10T00:15:23","slug":"re-the-metaphors-of-war-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/2003\/04\/09\/re-the-metaphors-of-war-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: The Metaphors of War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Posted by <b>blogalization [colin]<\/b>:<\/i><br \/>It was another Berkeley metaphorist, folklorist <a href=\"http:\/\/anthropology.berkeley.edu\/dundes.html\">Alan Dundes<\/a>, who noted that American football is rife with metaphors of sadistic sodomy, such as &#8220;penetrating the end zone&#8221; of the opponent. I think that analysis was slightly tongue-in-cheek. In the present case, I have to agree that Lakoff&#8217;s rhetoric in the first part of the essay was a bit too recondite to influence anyone &#151; as he recognizes. But starting with the sentence, &#8220;Awareness matters,&#8221; he starts making a lot of sense to me.<br \/>\n<br \/>\nBy the way, come by <a href=\"http:\/\/blogalization.org\/community\/weblog.php\">Blogalization<\/a> and see if you would be interested in participating or passing along the word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted by blogalization [colin]:It was another Berkeley metaphorist, folklorist Alan Dundes, who noted that American football is rife with metaphors of sadistic sodomy, such as &#8220;penetrating the end zone&#8221; of the opponent. I think that analysis was slightly tongue-in-cheek. In the present case, I have to agree that Lakoff&#8217;s rhetoric in the first part of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Rainer Brockerhoff","author_link":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/author\/rbrockerhoff\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1q3Zc-B5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brockerhoff.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}