{"id":16521,"date":"2018-03-05T11:54:17","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T19:54:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=16521"},"modified":"2018-02-25T23:38:43","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T07:38:43","slug":"waits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/03\/05\/waits\/","title":{"rendered":"waits"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Long discussion of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hymnsandcarolsofchristmas.com\/Text\/Chappell2\/waits.htm\">waits<\/a>, posted a few years ago. Excerpt:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Waits, or Waights, seem originally to have been a kind of musical watchmen, who, in order to prove their watchfulness, were required to pipe at stated hours of the night. The hautboy was also called a waight,\u2014perhaps from being the pipe upon which they commonly played,\u2014but there are early instances of the use of other pipes by Waits\u2026<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16521","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\/16521","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=16521"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17101,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16521\/revisions\/17101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}