{"id":12521,"date":"2009-11-08T08:56:35","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T16:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2009\/11\/08\/bucket-of-does.html"},"modified":"2009-11-08T08:56:35","modified_gmt":"2009-11-08T16:56:35","slug":"bucket-of-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2009\/11\/08\/bucket-of-does\/","title":{"rendered":"Bucket of Does"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I saw a billboard advertising the new Droid cell phone yesterday. It had a hard-edged and manly sort of high-tech industrial look to it, and it said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/cdevers\/4075337447\/\">A BARE-KNUCKLED BUCKET OF DOES<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, the Droid ad campaign has centered around the idea that there's lots of stuff that the iPhone doesn't do, but that \"Droid Does.\"<\/p>\n<p>So the advertisers can perhaps be forgiven for assuming that everyone would see the word \"DOES\" as a verb and pronounce it like \"duzz.\"<\/p>\n<p>But for just a moment, as I glanced at the billboard, I saw the word \"DOES\" as a plural noun, and pronounced it like \"doze.\"<\/p>\n<p>And I wondered: a bare-knuckled bucket full of female deer? Huh?<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a billboard advertising the new Droid cell phone yesterday. It had a hard-edged and manly sort of high-tech industrial look to it, and it said: A BARE-KNUCKLED BUCKET&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,22,17,55,70],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-funny","category-metaphors","category-misreading","category-pronunciation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}