{"id":172283,"date":"2021-12-08T08:11:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T13:11:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=172283"},"modified":"2022-10-05T08:49:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T12:49:46","slug":"i-mourn-the-death-of-the-rhetorical-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=172283","title":{"rendered":"I mourn the death of the rhetorical question"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; which I chalked up to the irritations of simplified Internet-speak, but this tendency of annoying people to actually answer what is CLEARLY a rhetorical question shows up in Costa-Gavras&#8217; <i>State of Siege<\/i> (1972). So those who refuse to recognize rhetorical questions will always be with us. And they make conversation infinitely less interesting. It&#8217;s so hard to have a deep and\/or philosophical conversation without using rhetorical questions. I should put it in my Twitter bio: &#8220;That was a rhetorical question.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/siege4-e1638968887993.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"416\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-172284\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/siege5-e1638968908554.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"417\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-172285\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/siege6-e1638969011606.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"414\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-172286\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/siege7-e1638969039733.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"417\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-172288\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; which I chalked up to the irritations of simplified Internet-speak, but this tendency of annoying people to actually answer what is CLEARLY a rhetorical question shows up in Costa-Gavras&#8217; State of Siege (1972). So those who refuse to recognize &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=172283\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[2674],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172283"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":172289,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172283\/revisions\/172289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}