{"id":749,"date":"2013-02-28T19:32:57","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T00:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=749"},"modified":"2013-02-26T19:54:32","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T00:54:32","slug":"blowing-up-on-square-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"Blowing Up On Square One"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For the latest installment in my series of <a title=\"Old Good Old Boys\" href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=526\">griping <\/a>about people <a title=\"Bottoms Up!\" href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=518\">mis-using <\/a><a title=\"Of Gorillas and Elephants\" href=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=402\">cliches<\/a>, I thought I&#8217;d tackle square one versus ground zero.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-752\" alt=\"square1\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/square1.jpg\" width=\"217\" height=\"232\" \/>Now, obviously, square one is where you start.\u00a0 Everyone knows this, but irritatingly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/meanings\/back%20to%20square%20one.html\">no one knows why<\/a> (I actually thought it had something to do with chess, though now that I stop and think about it, I can&#8217;t imagine why).\u00a0 It seems to me, we should borrow a page from land surveying, and just go with good old POB (Point Of Beginning).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-753\" alt=\"groundzero\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/groundzero.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"124\" \/>Ground zero, on the other hand, is not where something starts, it is where something explodes.\u00a0 So in a sense, it is an end point, not a start point.\u00a0 But even 9\/11 has not stopped people from conflating it with square one.\u00a0 I&#8217;d sort of gotten used to this, until the other night when I heard someone use both phrases to mean the same thing in the space of thirty seconds.\u00a0 That just won&#8217;t stand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the latest installment in my series of griping about people mis-using cliches, I thought I&#8217;d tackle square one versus ground zero. Now, obviously, square one is where you start.\u00a0 Everyone knows this, but irritatingly, no one knows why (I actually thought it had something to do with chess, though now that I stop and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar-gripery","category-metaphor"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}