{"id":16327,"date":"2006-03-23T08:56:11","date_gmt":"2006-03-23T16:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/03\/23\/shake-of-the-whip-1.html"},"modified":"2006-03-23T08:56:11","modified_gmt":"2006-03-23T16:56:11","slug":"shake-of-the-whip-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/03\/23\/shake-of-the-whip-1\/","title":{"rendered":"shake of the whip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I've heard \"fair shake\" before, but hadn't heard it connected to whips:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>No film-maker ever got a better shake of the whip than I did.<\/p>\n<p>--Robert Altman, quoted in a <cite>Guardian<\/cite> <a href=\"http:\/\/film.guardian.co.uk\/oscars2006\/story\/0,,1724502,00.html\">article about the Oscars<\/a>, March 5, 2006.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usingenglish.com\/reference\/idioms\/fair+shake+of+the+whip.html\">fair shake of the whip<\/a> in the UsingEnglish.com idiom dictionary.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve heard &#8220;fair shake&#8221; before, but hadn&#8217;t heard it connected to whips: No film-maker ever got a better shake of the whip than I did. &#8211;Robert Altman, quoted in a&#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-16327","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\/16327","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=16327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}