{"id":14118,"date":"2012-07-06T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-06T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2012\/07\/06\/recombinant-metaphors-smoking-.html"},"modified":"2012-07-06T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-06T17:58:00","slug":"recombinant-metaphors-smoking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2012\/07\/06\/recombinant-metaphors-smoking\/","title":{"rendered":"Recombinant metaphors: smoking duck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Reuters article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2012\/07\/04\/us-science-higgs-idUSBRE86008K20120704\">Higgs boson<\/a> provides a lovely mixed metaphor from Oliver Buchmueller, one of the CERN researchers:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If I were a betting man, I would bet that it is the Higgs. But we can't say that definitely yet. It is very much a smoking duck that walks and quacks like the Higgs. But we now have to open it up and look inside before we can say that it is indeed the Higgs.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Reuters article about the Higgs boson provides a lovely mixed metaphor from Oliver Buchmueller, one of the CERN researchers: If I were a betting man, I would bet that&#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":[22,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny","category-metaphors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118","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=14118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}