{"id":16378,"date":"2005-12-26T11:55:39","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T19:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2005\/12\/26\/coil.html"},"modified":"2005-12-26T11:55:39","modified_gmt":"2005-12-26T19:55:39","slug":"coil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2005\/12\/26\/coil\/","title":{"rendered":"coil"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote>\n<p>\"What coil are you keeping down there, Mullugutherum?\"<\/p>\n<p>--<cite>The Silver Chair<\/cite>, by C. S. Lewis, written around 1953; p, 157 of the 1994 HarperTrophy paperback edition<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>MW11 says \"coil\" means \"turmoil\" or \"trouble\"; also, I never knew what Shakespeare's \"mortal coil\" meant--turns out it refers to (as MW11 puts it) \"everyday cares and worries.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> &#8220;What coil are you keeping down there, Mullugutherum?&#8221; &#8211;The Silver Chair, by C. S. Lewis, written around 1953; p, 157 of the 1994 HarperTrophy paperback edition MW11 says &#8220;coil&#8221;&#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-16378","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\/16378","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=16378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}