{"id":3755,"date":"2006-12-24T20:07:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-25T04:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/12\/24\/hustings.html"},"modified":"2006-12-24T20:07:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-25T04:07:44","slug":"hustings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/12\/24\/hustings\/","title":{"rendered":"hustings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doonesbury.com\/strip\/dailydose\/index.html?uc_full_date=20061020\">Doonesbury strip<\/a> used the phrase \"hit the hustings.\"  Turns out that (says Wikipedia) a \"<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Husting\">husting<\/a>\" is \"the platform from which a candidate speaks before a parliamentary or other election, or, by metonymy, the occasion of the debate or the entire campaign.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent Doonesbury strip used the phrase &#8220;hit the hustings.&#8221; Turns out that (says Wikipedia) a &#8220;husting&#8221; is &#8220;the platform from which a candidate speaks before a parliamentary or other&#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-3755","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\/3755","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=3755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3755\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}