{"id":2044,"date":"2011-04-05T05:46:34","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T09:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=2044"},"modified":"2011-04-05T05:46:34","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T09:46:34","slug":"bathwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/bathwater\/","title":{"rendered":"bathwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/ca1103-a1350-dolls-trash.jpg\" alt=\"catalytic converter and dolls\"><br \/>\nA slightly different explanation suggests that this flexible catchphrase has to do with discarding the essential while retaining the superfluous because of excessive zeal. In other words, the idiom is applicable not only when it&#8217;s a matter of throwing out the baby with the bath water, but also when someone might throw out the baby and keep the bath water.&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Throw_out_the_baby_with_the_bath_water\">Wikipedia<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billemory.com\/labels\/dolls.html\">doll<\/a> in the middle looks familiar. Sophia and April both would find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billemory.com\/labels\/doll.html\">these<\/a> when walking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slightly different explanation suggests that this flexible catchphrase has to do with discarding the essential while retaining the superfluous because of excessive zeal. In other words, the idiom is applicable not only when it&#8217;s a matter of throwing out the baby with the bath water, but also when someone might throw out the baby &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/bathwater\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;bathwater&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dolls"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2044"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2048,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2044\/revisions\/2048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}