{"id":75,"date":"2008-03-09T17:34:01","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T00:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=75"},"modified":"2008-03-09T17:34:01","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T00:34:01","slug":"bad-rhetorical-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=75","title":{"rendered":"Bad: Rhetorical questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a speaker uses a lot of rhetorical questions, it amounts to an admission: &#8220;Since I am not letting you ask any questions, let me give you a few that you can pretend you asked.&#8221; And: &#8220;You are probably bored, so let me try to pique your curiousity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Once in a great while a rhetorical question can just be good rhetoric. Usually, the best rhetoric prompts the question in the listener&#8217;s mind without stating it baldly, and answers the question without disrupting the flow of thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a speaker uses a lot of rhetorical questions, it amounts to an admission: &#8220;Since I am not letting you ask any questions, let me give you a few that you can pretend you asked.&#8221; And: &#8220;You are probably bored, so let me try to pique your curiousity.&#8221; Once in a great while a rhetorical question can just be good <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/?p=75\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cleverdialectic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}