{"id":2650,"date":"1999-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-03-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1999\/03\/29\/ggginger-comments\/"},"modified":"2018-01-14T22:56:55","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T06:56:55","slug":"ggginger-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1999\/03\/29\/ggginger-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"ggg: Rhyme Sightings (Reader Comments and Addenda)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n<p>Carl Muckenhoupt notes that in the line<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>Dull, bull; Geoffrey, George ate late,<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>\"ate\" is probably meant to be pronounced \/Et\/ rather than the more standard American \/eIt\/. I agree; I had been baffled by the inclusion of two rhyming words on that line, but that pronunciation makes it make sense.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>(Last updated: 30 March 1999)<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1999\/03\/28\/ggginger\/\">Back to column ggg<\/a><\/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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-5-lllowercase-3"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650","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=2650"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3442,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2650\/revisions\/3442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}