{"id":16376,"date":"2005-12-29T15:34:12","date_gmt":"2005-12-29T23:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2005\/12\/29\/buffer.html"},"modified":"2005-12-29T15:34:12","modified_gmt":"2005-12-29T23:34:12","slug":"buffer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2005\/12\/29\/buffer\/","title":{"rendered":"buffer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote>\n<p>\"I can't expect two youngsters like you to find it much fun talking to an old buffer like me.\"<\/p>\n<p>--<cite>The Magician's Nephew<\/cite>, by C. S. Lewis, first published 1955; p, 15 of the 1994 HarperTrophy paperback edition<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>MW11 says it's British slang for \"fellow\" or \"man\", especially \"an old man.\" Dating back to 1749.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;I can&#8217;t expect two youngsters like you to find it much fun talking to an old buffer like me.&#8221; &#8211;The Magician&#8217;s Nephew, by C. S. Lewis, first published 1955;&#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-16376","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\/16376","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=16376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}