{"id":17567,"date":"2018-08-23T19:40:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T02:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17567"},"modified":"2018-08-23T19:40:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T02:40:45","slug":"standover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/08\/23\/standover\/","title":{"rendered":"Standover"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I learned a new word today! I seem to learn new terms whenever I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/australia-news\/australian-politics\">read about Australian politics<\/a>. I've previously come across words such as <i>shirtfront<\/i> (to belligerently confront, as when charging directly at someone so as to bump chests) and <i>king hit<\/i> (a knockout blow delivered from behind), and today I have added <i>standover tactics<\/i>, a form of coercion where the <i>standover man<\/i> looms ominously over the person in need of persuading. In Aussie criminal cant it's more than looming, but I choose to believe that a political standover man is threatening only political action.\r\n<p>Thanks,<br>-Ed.\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standover tactics require a standover man. Or a standover woman, of course. A standover person of any kind. Or perhaps a standover kangaroo would do, I&#8217;m not sure about all of these antipodean nuances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"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-17567","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\/17567","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17568,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17567\/revisions\/17568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}