{"id":515,"date":"2003-11-11T13:47:53","date_gmt":"2003-11-11T17:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/11\/11\/how-to-scathe-an-object-lesson\/"},"modified":"2003-11-11T13:47:53","modified_gmt":"2003-11-11T17:47:53","slug":"how-to-scathe-an-object-lesson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2003\/11\/11\/how-to-scathe-an-object-lesson\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Scathe:  An Object Lesson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a299'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><P>In order to well and <STRONG>truly<\/STRONG> scathe<STRONG> <\/STRONG>somone, one must lead off with a <STRONG>compliment<\/STRONG>, and be polite, unemotional, and incisive in language.&nbsp; Consider this <A href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/fact\/content\/?031117fa_fact\">masterful article on Clark<\/A>, which at first glance merely describes key events in his past, with <STRONG>quotes<\/STRONG> from Clark and his colleagues thrown in for added color.&nbsp; The best example of <STRONG>a scathing<\/STRONG> I&#8217;ve seen this season.<\/P><br \/>\n<P>In contrast, the emotional content on, say,&nbsp;KickingAss, about GWB, bounces right off the old shell without much lasting effect.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In order to well and truly scathe somone, one must lead off with a compliment, and be polite, unemotional, and incisive in language.&nbsp; Consider this masterful article on Clark, which at first glance merely describes key events in his past, with quotes from Clark and his colleagues thrown in for added color.&nbsp; The best example [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetic-justice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}