{"id":17691,"date":"2018-12-06T22:15:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T06:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17691"},"modified":"2018-12-06T22:15:39","modified_gmt":"2018-12-07T06:15:39","slug":"struthious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/12\/06\/struthious\/","title":{"rendered":"struthious"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I was vaguely aware of the word <i>struthious<\/i> as relating to ostriches, but I don\u2019t think I had previously encountered it used metaphorically. Damon Knight, in his essay in <cite>Clarion II<\/cite>, wrote:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Wollheim alludes to this episode in a typically struthious way[\u2026]<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>From context, I\u2019m assuming that Knight meant that Wollheim had his head in the sand, not that (for example) he was a large flightless bird who could run fast.<\/p>\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":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-specific-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17691","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=17691"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17694,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17691\/revisions\/17694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}