{"id":2867,"date":"2023-03-30T17:55:52","date_gmt":"2023-03-30T17:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/what-is-a-tank-and-when-is-it-pedantic"},"modified":"2023-03-30T17:55:52","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T17:55:52","slug":"what-is-a-tank-and-when-is-it-pedantic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/what-is-a-tank-and-when-is-it-pedantic\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is A Tank And When Is It Pedantic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Update 1\/19\/23 fixed a duplicated portion of the story.I’m not a tank expert. But I am capable of both levels of pedanticism, and passive indifference few mortals can ever reach. Context determines when each personality trait comes out. An apartment isn’t a house, but if someone invites you over “to the house” for dinner, quibbling about names of building structures is needlessly pedantic. In most day-to-day contexts being a little imprecise with language is unproblematic. An SUV can be a “car”, a thumbtack can be a “small nail,” and so on. In most conversations, those labels don’t matter.  If someone is giving you directions, trying to buy a vehicle, or sending you to a store with a shopping list, calling things what they are matters. If a kid gets under the kitchen sink and drinks from a bottle of something poisonous, what they drank matters to the medical providers a great deal. But telling the story to grandma after the fact, the difference between Windex and Stoner Invisible Glass cleaning solution is negligible. A reporter focused on accuracy would probably lean generically, saying simply “household cleaner” in their story. To reporters covering hawt military on military action, correctly describing equipment matters. And when a reporter doesn’t know the name of the equipment, it’s safest to lean generically, as I will do with the following story. A friend of mine is a hardcore military geek. My understanding of his resume is he started as a grunt in a light-heavy artillery unit…What Is A Tank And When Is It Pedantic<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Update 1\/19\/23 fixed a duplicated portion of the story.I’m not a tank expert. But I am capable of both levels of pedanticism, and passive indifference few mortals can ever reach.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[29,69,66,13,68,67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}