{"id":1871,"date":"2006-05-24T20:56:46","date_gmt":"2006-05-25T04:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1871"},"modified":"2007-09-06T00:35:47","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T08:35:47","slug":"you-say-you-want-a-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1871","title":{"rendered":"you say you want a revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/002888.html\">Paul Kay of Language Log<\/a> is puzzled by a bit of Washington jargon: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> It&#8217;s easy to see what Ms. Stolberg intends by the &#8220;reverse revolving door&#8221; because we&#8217;re familiar with the <i>revolving door<\/i> as a characterization of the frequent passage from government official to lobbyist. What&#8217;s less apparent is why the trope works in the first place. It&#8217;s in the essence of a revolving door to permit simultaneous traffic in both directions. So what on earth could a reverse revolving door be? <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When I first heard of &#8220;the revolving door&#8221; in the sense described (twenty-odd years ago), I think it had to do with the Executive Branch rather than the legislature.  Legislators are rarely hired for their expertise in a specific area (other than politicking), but regulatory agencies and procurement offices take people from the industries directly concerned, because that&#8217;s where the expertise is.  Thus it seems that the metaphor arose in a field where it was apt and drifted to one where it is less apt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Kay of Language Log is puzzled by a bit of Washington jargon: It&#8217;s easy to see what Ms. Stolberg intends by the &#8220;reverse revolving door&#8221; because we&#8217;re familiar with the revolving door as a characterization of the frequent passage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1871\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}