{"id":14807,"date":"2014-01-27T21:12:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-28T05:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2014\/01\/27\/unlubricated.html"},"modified":"2014-01-27T21:12:20","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T05:12:20","slug":"unlubricated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2014\/01\/27\/unlubricated\/","title":{"rendered":"Unlubricated"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&ldquo;Overhead he heard the tiny, unlubricated sound of a bat.&rdquo; &mdash;Theodore Sturgeon, &ldquo;Excalibur and the Atom,&rdquo; 1951.<\/p>\n<p>Reading these old Sturgeon stories is reminding me that prose can unashamedly use poetic metaphors. They're the kind of metaphors that never even occur to me to write, but I love reading them; maybe I should practice more.<\/p>\n<p>I think of that kind of thing as having been more common in the '30s through the '50s than it is today; see also my Words &amp; Stuff column (from 1999) on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/words\/lower3\/sssimiles.html\">similes<\/a>, featuring Leigh Brackett, Raymond Chandler, Edith Wharton, and Beryl Markham.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&ldquo;Overhead he heard the tiny, unlubricated sound of a bat.&rdquo; &mdash;Theodore Sturgeon, &ldquo;Excalibur and the Atom,&rdquo; 1951. Reading these old Sturgeon stories is reminding me that prose can unashamedly use&#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":[17,68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphors","category-phrases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14807","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=14807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}