{"id":708,"date":"2006-09-07T10:52:07","date_gmt":"2006-09-07T14:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shermandorn.com\/wordpress\/?p=708"},"modified":"2006-09-07T10:52:07","modified_gmt":"2006-09-07T14:52:07","slug":"what-do-you-think-of-this-accountability-mixed-metaphor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/?p=708","title":{"rendered":"What do you think of this accountability mixed metaphor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m now done with the preface and chapters 1-2 of <em>Accountability Frankenstein<\/em>, and I just noticed the following mixed metaphor:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>For a school official to say blithely that elementary teachers should deemphasize <em>-ing <\/em>word endings in language arts because <em>-s<\/em> and <em>-es<\/em> endings are on the test but <em>-ing<\/em> endings are not is letting the fear of test consequences drive common sense out the window (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sptimes.com\/2004\/10\/04\/Southpinellas\/New_FCAT_push_acceler.shtml\">Tobin &amp; Winchester<\/a>, 2004)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Normally, you don&#8217;t drive in and out of windows. But on the other hand, maybe the idea of a car going through a window is precisely the image I want to convey.&nbsp; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m now done with the preface and chapters 1-2 of Accountability Frankenstein, and I just noticed the following mixed metaphor: For a school official to say blithely that elementary teachers should deemphasize -ing word endings in language arts because -s and -es endings are on the test but -ing endings are not is letting the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability-frankenstein"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pag0MB-bq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shermandorn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}