{"id":100,"date":"2008-12-11T13:45:51","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T18:45:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/2008\/12\/11\/enough-with-czar\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T13:45:51","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T18:45:51","slug":"enough-with-czar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/2008\/12\/11\/enough-with-czar\/","title":{"rendered":"Enough with &#8220;czar&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to call for an end to the use of the term &#8220;czar&#8221; in our political discourse. I have been hearing on the news lately about\u00c2\u00a0 the possibility of appointing a &#8220;car czar&#8221; and that is what spurs this message.<\/p>\n<p>As we well know (from reading wikipedia), <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Czar#Metaphorical_uses\" target=\"_blank\">Tsar<\/a> is a term referring to a monarch in Bulgarian, Serbian, and Russian histories.<\/p>\n<p>Our country was built upon the struggle against monarchy and I feel that the use of the term &#8220;czar&#8221; should be very out of place in the American political discourse.<\/p>\n<p>Let us not let the tendency of the national news media to employ the use of buzzwords and soundbites influence the way we talk about our own government, let&#8217;s put an end to it.<\/p>\n<p>I fully realize that this is not an issue of utmost importance but I do think it is important to think about the ways we talk about our government and I don&#8217;t think terms such as &#8220;czar&#8221; belong in that discussion, when referring to one of our own government posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I would like to call for an end to the use of the term &#8220;czar&#8221; in our political discourse. I have been hearing on the news lately about\u00c2\u00a0 the possibility of appointing a &#8220;car czar&#8221; and that is what spurs this message. As we well know (from reading wikipedia), Tsar is a term referring to &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/2008\/12\/11\/enough-with-czar\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enough with &#8220;czar&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[33,31,32],"class_list":["post-100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-33","tag-czar","tag-tsar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}