{"id":4323,"date":"2009-01-16T09:44:53","date_gmt":"2009-01-16T14:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/?p=4323"},"modified":"2009-01-16T09:44:53","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T14:44:53","slug":"on_the_overuse_of_it_would_appear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/01\/on_the_overuse_of_it_would_appear.html","title":{"rendered":"On The Overuse Of &#8220;It Would Appear&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It would appear&#8221; that this particular verbal tic is <a href=\"http:\/\/wcbstv.com\/national\/us.airways.crash.2.909669.html\">rapidly becoming the most obnoxious schoolmarmish finger-wagging-sounding phrase-crutch in the mayor&#8217;s verbal arsenal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Bloomberg said [that] Sullenberger&#8217;s actions will not be forgotten any time soon. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It would appear the pilot did a masterful job. He walked the plane twice after everyone else got off. A passenger said he was the last one up the aisle and that there was no one behind him,&#8221; Bloomberg said. &#8220;This pilot did a wonderful job and it would appear that all 155 got out safely.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Um, <em>it would appear<\/em> the pilot did a masterful job? How about, &#8220;Fuck yeah, the pilot did a masterful job!&#8221;? And why bother with the conditional &#8220;would&#8221; in the first place? Isn&#8217;t &#8220;it appears that all 155 got out safely&#8221; basically the same thing?<\/p>\n<p>Or is there something about the conditional that particularly suits this mayor?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;It would appear&#8221; that this particular verbal tic is rapidly becoming the most obnoxious schoolmarmish finger-wagging-sounding phrase-crutch in the mayor&#8217;s verbal arsenal: Bloomberg said [that] Sullenberger&#8217;s actions will not be forgotten any time soon. &#8220;It would appear the pilot did a masterful job. He walked the plane twice after everyone else got off. A passenger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-followed_by_a_perplexed_stroke_of_the_chin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4324,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4323\/revisions\/4324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}