{"id":18034,"date":"2019-10-01T17:30:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-02T00:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18034"},"modified":"2019-10-01T17:32:28","modified_gmt":"2019-10-02T00:32:28","slug":"scottish-yarn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/10\/01\/scottish-yarn\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish yarn"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>From a review:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>This Scottish yarn is like a lightweight, well-worn, expertly tailored Harris tweed. To scramble metaphors, the cunning mechanism of the plot purrs like a Rolls, and the writing style is luscious thick Devon cream.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>That\u2019s <cite>The New Republic<\/cite> reviewing Peter Dickinson\u2019s 1970 novel <cite><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peterdickinson.com\/books\/sinfulstones\/\">The Sinful Stones<\/a><\/cite>. I was amused at the start of that line because I wasn\u2019t sure whether it was talking about literal yarn or a story, and I was amused at the rest of it because of the mixed metaphors.<\/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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphors"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18034","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=18034"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18036,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18034\/revisions\/18036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}