{"id":2717,"date":"1997-10-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1997-10-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/10\/13\/obsolete-comments\/"},"modified":"2018-05-19T12:27:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-19T19:27:33","slug":"obsolete-comments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/10\/13\/obsolete-comments\/","title":{"rendered":"O: Pushing My Buttons (Reader Comments and Addenda)"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Jim Moskowitz points out that the phrase \"pull out all the stops\" originally referred to pulling the stop knobs of a musical organ. But stops are still in use on organs (though non-electronic organs are relatively rare), and the phrase may again be more a metaphor than an obsolescism. The search continues.<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p>(Last updated: 10 January 1999)<\/p>\r\n<hr \/>\r\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/1997\/10\/12\/obsolete\/\">Back to column O<\/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":[6,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2-uppercase-1","category-obsolescisms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717","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=2717"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3278,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2717\/revisions\/3278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}