{"id":270,"date":"2003-10-24T02:55:13","date_gmt":"2003-10-24T09:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=270"},"modified":"2003-10-24T02:55:13","modified_gmt":"2003-10-24T09:55:13","slug":"a-block-of-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2003\/10\/a-block-of-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"A block of writers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I already know how my next post will begin:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The bus from Newark discharged its passengers &mdash; a &#8230; of Swedes and myself &mdash; into the halogen murk of the Port Authority bus station on 42nd.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But now I&#8217;m stuck. I can&#8217;t think of a good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ojohaven.com\/collectives\/\">collective noun<\/a> for Swedes. This is what I&#8217;ve come up with so far, but rejected. What do you think<span class=\"sg-marginalia-150\">I have, however, found an excellent collective noun for my fellow city dwellers: A syndrome of Stockholmers.<\/span>?<\/p>\n<p>A binge of Swedes? (Doesn&#8217;t cover the sober ones);<\/p>\n<p>A curiosity of Swedes? (Doesn&#8217;t cover the drunk ones);<\/p>\n<p>A share of Swedes? (Too Third Way. Or too First Way? In any case, too confusing);<\/p>\n<p>An angst of Swedes? (Too stereotyped);<\/p>\n<p>A collective of Swedes? (Too literal for my tastes).<\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I already know how my next post will begin: The bus from Newark discharged its passengers &mdash; a &#8230; of Swedes and myself &mdash; into the halogen murk of the Port Authority bus station on 42nd. But now I&#8217;m stuck. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2003\/10\/a-block-of-writers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-4m","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}