{"id":12037,"date":"2009-04-20T11:06:30","date_gmt":"2009-04-20T18:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2009\/04\/20\/thrupenny-bits.html"},"modified":"2009-04-20T11:06:30","modified_gmt":"2009-04-20T18:06:30","slug":"thrupenny-bits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2009\/04\/20\/thrupenny-bits\/","title":{"rendered":"thrupenny bits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just encountered a comment in an article on <cite>Britain's Got Talent<\/cite> that refers to \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.unrealitytv.co.uk\/britains-got-talent\/britains-got-talent-shaheen-sings-valerie\/\">a dancer who was show[ing] her thrupennie bits to the world<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/13252737@N08\/3235155760\/\">Thruppence<\/a>, or the threepenny bit, was, of course, a British coin worth three pence.<\/p>\n<p>And \"thrupenny bits\" turns out to be Cockney rhyming slang for \"tits.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just encountered a comment in an article on Britain&#8217;s Got Talent that refers to &#8220;a dancer who was show[ing] her thrupennie bits to the world.&#8221; Thruppence, or the threepenny bit,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,23,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maledicta","category-slang","category-specific-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}