{"id":3654,"date":"2006-09-02T21:11:49","date_gmt":"2006-09-03T04:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/09\/02\/hartshorn.html"},"modified":"2006-09-02T21:11:49","modified_gmt":"2006-09-03T04:11:49","slug":"hartshorn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/09\/02\/hartshorn\/","title":{"rendered":"hartshorn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\"Hartshorn\" is a (perhaps old-fashioned) term for a particular kind of smelling salts (using ammonia); MW11 says it's because harts' horns were once the main source for ammonia.<\/p>\n<p>Another one from <cite>Privilege of the Sword<\/cite>.<\/p>\n<p>The term seems rather evocative to me; it sounds like it should be the name of a lonely castle on a moor somewhere.  (Especially because I keep wanting to mispronounce it as \"heart-shorn.\")<\/p>\n<p>(I'm obliquely reminded that it took me a while, as a kid, to parse the title of the Peter Dickinson novel <cite>Heartsease<\/cite>; I think I kept wanting it to have something to do with seas instead of ease.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Hartshorn&#8221; is a (perhaps old-fashioned) term for a particular kind of smelling salts (using ammonia); MW11 says it&#8217;s because harts&#8217; horns were once the main source for ammonia. Another one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3654","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\/3654","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=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}