{"id":13127,"date":"2010-06-25T17:54:40","date_gmt":"2010-06-26T00:54:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2010\/06\/25\/fifth-column.html"},"modified":"2010-06-25T17:54:40","modified_gmt":"2010-06-26T00:54:40","slug":"fifth-column","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2010\/06\/25\/fifth-column\/","title":{"rendered":"fifth column"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I always wondered vaguely about the origin of the term \"<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fifth_Column\">fifth column<\/a>,\" but never got around to looking it up 'til now.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out (according to the abovelinked Wikipedia article) that it comes from the Spanish Civil War, when a general of an army outside Madrid said that his four military columns of soldiers would be supported by a fifth \"column\" of people inside the city.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always wondered vaguely about the origin of the term &#8220;fifth column,&#8221; but never got around to looking it up &#8217;til now. Turns out (according to the abovelinked Wikipedia article)&#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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127","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=13127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}