{"id":16315,"date":"2006-04-03T22:19:41","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T05:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/04\/03\/parky.html"},"modified":"2006-04-03T22:19:41","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T05:19:41","slug":"parky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/04\/03\/parky\/","title":{"rendered":"parky"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote>\n<p>She gets fleetingly, gigglingly nude in a rooftop Jacuzzi, but given that we are in London, not California, this just looked a bit parky to me.<\/p>\n<p>--<cite>Guardian<\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/News_Story\/Critic_Review\/Guardian_review\/0,,1743089,00.html\">review of <cite>Basic Instinct 2<\/cite><\/a>, written by Peter Bradshaw, 31 March 2006<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Turns out \"parky\" is British slang for \"cold.\"<\/p>\n<p>Later in the review, the following phrase appears: \"he gets very frowny and shouty and looks as cross as two sticks.\" I don't remember whether I've encountered that simile before, but I like it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> She gets fleetingly, gigglingly nude in a rooftop Jacuzzi, but given that we are in London, not California, this just looked a bit parky to me. &#8211;Guardian review of&#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":[17,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphors","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16315","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=16315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}