{"id":653,"date":"2007-11-21T14:05:21","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T18:05:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/11\/21\/the-meaning-of-is-is\/"},"modified":"2010-11-26T17:37:06","modified_gmt":"2010-11-26T22:37:06","slug":"the-meaning-of-is-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/2007\/11\/21\/the-meaning-of-is-is\/","title":{"rendered":"The Meaning of is is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Arrington <strong>&#8216;is contemplating the meaning of &#8220;is&#8221;.<\/strong>&#8216; As per a <a href=\"http:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2007\/11\/20\/the-blogosphere-needs-a-vacation\/\">recent Facebook message change<\/a> (that has now been changed back).<\/p>\n<p>This issue of the meaning of &#8220;is&#8221; seems to be a recurring problem in our society. You might recall this statement by former President Clinton:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;It depends on what the meaning of the words &#8216;is&#8217; is.&#8221;<\/strong> \u2013<em>Bill Clinton, during his 1998 grand jury testimony on the Monica Lewinsky affair<\/em>\u00a0<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Dictionary.com says it&#8217;s this:<br \/>\n\u2013verb 1. 3rd pers. sing. pres. indic. of be.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u2014Idiom2. as is. as1 (def. 25).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>[Origin: bef. 900; ME, OE; c. D is, ON es, er, G, Goth ist, L est, Gk est\u00ed, OCS jest\u012d, Skt asti]<br \/>\nDictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1)<br \/>\nBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, \u00a9 Random House, Inc. 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Why is the meaning of &#8220;is&#8221; such\u00a0a frequent area of\u00a0discussion?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Arrington &#8216;is contemplating the meaning of &#8220;is&#8221;.&#8216; As per a recent Facebook message change (that has now been changed back). This issue of the meaning of &#8220;is&#8221; seems to be a recurring problem in our society. You might recall this statement by former President Clinton: &#8220;It depends on what the meaning of the words [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.daviddalka.com\/createvalue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}