{"id":16016,"date":"2025-10-01T14:01:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16016"},"modified":"2025-09-30T12:39:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T11:39:35","slug":"its-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=16016","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s impossible"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed a growing trend of the word &#8216;impossible&#8217; being incorrectly used. It&#8217;s right up there with &#8216;decimated&#8217;, but the misuse of &#8216;impossible&#8217; is actually impossible to ignore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve seen &#8216;impossibly wet&#8217;, &#8216;impossibly tight&#8217;, &#8216;impossibly pretty&#8217;, and, this morning &#8211; in an email from Google &#8211; an invitation to make&#8230; well, the grammatical abomination is below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I do realise most of these examples spring from Americans and therefore should be heavily discounted (because Americans can only speak &#8220;simplified English&#8221; according to the tech industry), but for crying out loud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"849\" height=\"250\" src=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Impossible.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Impossible.png 849w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Impossible-300x88.png 300w, https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Impossible-768x226.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 849px) 100vw, 849px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve noticed a growing trend of the word &#8216;impossible&#8217; being incorrectly used. It&#8217;s right up there with &#8216;decimated&#8217;, but the misuse of &#8216;impossible&#8217; is actually<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"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-16016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16016"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16022,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16016\/revisions\/16022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}