murder of Mike Webb<\/a><\/strong>, a former radio talk show host, says Webb was “killed by stab wounds.” That may be technically, medically, and\/or forensically correct (I really don’t know), but it sounds grammatically and\/or semantically incorrect. “Died from stab wounds” and “stabbed to death” sound correct. <\/p>\nNot the point of the article, I know. The point is, Webb was last seen alive in mid-April, reported missing approximately one month later and, despite multiple police visits to Webb’s home\u2014one with a cadaver dog\u2014, Webb’s body was not discovered until the end of June. And it was discovered not by police, but by a worker hired by Webb’s landlord. <\/p>\n
But it does go to the point of this post and one of my … um, tendencies. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
June 30, 2007 Is it possible to be “killed by stab wounds”? According to the Seattle Times, it is. Today’s story about the murder of Mike Webb, a former radio talk show host, says Webb was “killed by stab wounds.” That may be technically, medically, and\/or forensically correct (I really don’t know), but it sounds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random-ramblings","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/steve.isitfridayyet.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}