{"id":752,"date":"2007-07-25T02:41:24","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T09:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=752"},"modified":"2010-01-24T09:49:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-24T17:49:55","slug":"reh-word-of-the-week-guerdon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/reh-word-of-the-week-guerdon\/","title":{"rendered":"REH Word of the Week: <em>guerdon<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=guerdon&amp;x=0&amp;y=0\"><strong>guerdon<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>-noun<br \/>\n1.\ta reward, recompense, or requital.<\/p>\n<p>-verb (used with object)<br \/>\n2.\tto give a guerdon to; reward.<\/p>\n<p>[Middle English, origin: 1325-75; from Old French <em>gueredon<\/em>, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German <em>widarlon<\/em>, Old English <em>witherlean<\/em>; final element influenced by Latin <em>donum<\/em> gift]<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOWARD&#8217;S USAGE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ride with us on a dim, lost road,<br \/>\nTo the dawn of a distant day<br \/>\nWhen swords were bare for a <strong>guerdon <\/strong>rare &#8212;<br \/>\nThe Flower of Black Cathay<\/p>\n<p>[part of the epigraph to the tale &#8220;Red Blades of Black Cathay,&#8221; a story about the resistance of the eponymous kingdom to the hordes of Genghis Khan (1162-1227). L. Sprague de Camp would no doubt have pointed out that, as used by Howard, &#8220;guerdon&#8221; is technically anachronistic, as according to the dictionary&#8217;s etymological data the word didn&#8217;t come into use until a century after the events of the story.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>guerdon -noun 1. a reward, recompense, or requital. -verb (used with object) 2. to give a guerdon to; reward. [Middle English, origin: 1325-75; from Old French gueredon, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German widarlon, Old English witherlean; final element influenced by Latin donum gift] HOWARD&#8217;S USAGE: Ride with us on a dim, lost road, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word-of-the-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10633,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752\/revisions\/10633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}