{"id":2613,"date":"2011-08-09T09:41:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T15:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=2613"},"modified":"2011-08-09T09:41:47","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T15:41:47","slug":"unchartered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2011\/08\/09\/unchartered\/","title":{"rendered":"So what you&#8217;re saying is that we need to book a bus to ride into hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/stills\/who\/219-planet-of-the-dead-2.jpg\" alt=\"The 2:15 bus to hell\" class=alignright \/>With the whole credit downgrade debt doom business in the news lately, I&#8217;ve repeatedly seen the following phrase in print, on TV (in on-screen graphics <em>and<\/em> closed captioning) and on the web:<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;unchartered territory&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;which <em>makes no sense<\/em>. It&#8217;s <strong>uncharted<\/strong> territory. It hasn&#8217;t been charted. It hasn&#8217;t been mapped. We don&#8217;t know where we&#8217;re going, and we don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s next. <em>Uncharted.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this context, &#8220;unchartered&#8221; makes no sense.<\/p>\n<p>Really, so much about this whole situation makes no sense. But at least I can get my head around using the right word in an attempt to land somewhere in the same county and\/or parish with the right meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the whole credit downgrade debt doom business in the news lately, I&#8217;ve repeatedly seen the following phrase in print, on TV (in on-screen graphics and closed captioning) and on the web: &#8220;unchartered territory&#8221; &#8230;which makes no sense. It&#8217;s uncharted territory. It hasn&#8217;t been charted. It hasn&#8217;t been mapped. We don&#8217;t know where we&#8217;re going, and we don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s next. Uncharted. In this context, &#8220;unchartered&#8221; makes no sense. Really, so much about this whole situation makes no sense. But at least I can get my head around using the right word in an attempt to land somewhere in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-serious-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}