{"id":8839,"date":"2014-02-17T08:48:16","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T15:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simonburrow.com\/\/?p=8839"},"modified":"2014-02-01T17:03:27","modified_gmt":"2014-02-02T00:03:27","slug":"corrected-condolences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=8839","title":{"rendered":"Corrected Condolences"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I was offered “sincere condolences.”<\/h3>\n

Which brought up the question: Are there “insincere condolences?”<\/h3>\n

Condolences aren’t condolences if they aren’t sincere.<\/h3>\n

They are probably platitudes.<\/h3>\n

Perhaps you could offer “sincere platitudes.”<\/h3>\n

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“Simon I like to offer you “sincere platitudes” on the death of the chipmunk.<\/p>\n

Sounds good.<\/p>\n

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Recently I was offered “sincere condolences.” Which brought up the question: Are there “insincere condolences?” Condolences aren’t condolences if they aren’t sincere. They are probably platitudes. Perhaps you could offer “sincere platitudes.” “Simon I like to offer you “sincere platitudes” on the death of the chipmunk. Sounds good.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-simon-says"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-2iz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8842,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8839\/revisions\/8842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}