{"id":16346,"date":"2006-02-18T16:46:52","date_gmt":"2006-02-19T00:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/02\/18\/choree.html"},"modified":"2006-02-18T16:46:52","modified_gmt":"2006-02-19T00:46:52","slug":"choree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/02\/18\/choree\/","title":{"rendered":"choree"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote>\n<p>Chorees--abrupt, swift, falling like a keen axe.<\/p>\n<p>--<cite>We<\/cite>, by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney in 1960; p. 60 of the 1977 Penguin edition<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>MW3 says \"choree\" is a synonym for \"choreus\" (plural \"chorei\"), which is \"a trochee in classical prosody.\"<\/p>\n<p>A trochee, of course, being (at least in modern verse) a metrical foot in poetry consisting of a stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable; the opposite of an iamb.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Chorees&#8211;abrupt, swift, falling like a keen axe. &#8211;We, by Yevgeny Zamyatin, translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney in 1960; p. 60 of the 1977 Penguin edition MW3 says &#8220;choree&#8221; is&#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":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16346","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=16346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}