{"id":12641,"date":"2009-12-26T10:44:50","date_gmt":"2009-12-26T18:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2009\/12\/26\/in-the-wind.html"},"modified":"2009-12-26T10:44:50","modified_gmt":"2009-12-26T18:44:50","slug":"in-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2009\/12\/26\/in-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"in the wind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Just happened across a remarkably poetic phrase that I've never heard used this way before.<\/p>\n<p>I was reading an article about a woman who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/ny_crime\/2009\/12\/24\/2009-12-24_woman_fatally_knifes_thug_in_subway_attack.html\">stabbed an attacker<\/a>; the woman fled the scene, and near the end of the article it notes:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p> The woman was still in the wind Thursday night, police said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At first I thought that must be a typo of some sort. But a quick search finds some other occurrences, such as this headline from an unrelated article: \"<a href=\"http:\/\/newstalkradiowhio.com\/localnews\/2009\/12\/shooting-victim-shows-up-at-ho.html\">Shooting victim shows up at hospital, perp still in the wind<\/a>.\"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=in+the+wind\">Urbandictionary<\/a> suggests that the term can mean various things, including \"unable to be found\" and \"on the run.\"<\/p>\n<p>The derivation seems obvious, but I do wonder (a) where and when the phrase was first used this way, and (b) why I've never encountered it before.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just happened across a remarkably poetic phrase that I&#8217;ve never heard used this way before. I was reading an article about a woman who stabbed an attacker; the woman fled&#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":[48,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idioms","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641","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=12641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}