{"id":759,"date":"2007-08-01T17:01:24","date_gmt":"2007-08-02T00:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=759"},"modified":"2007-08-02T18:24:03","modified_gmt":"2007-08-03T01:24:03","slug":"reh-word-of-the-week-baluster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/reh-word-of-the-week-baluster\/","title":{"rendered":"REH Word of the Week: <em>baluster<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>bal\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00b7us\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00b7ter<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>-noun<br \/>\n1. One of the upright, usually rounded or vase-shaped supports of a balustrade.<br \/>\n2. An upright support, such as a furniture leg, having a similar shape.<br \/>\n3. One of the supporting posts of a handrail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[French <em>balustre<\/em>, from Italian <em>balaustro<\/em>, from <em>balaustra<\/em>, pomegranate flower (from a resemblance to the post), from Latin <em>balaustium<\/em>, from Greek <em>balaustion<\/em>.]<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOWARD&#8217;S USAGE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Belesa and Tina, forgotten on the stair, peeping between the <strong>balusters<\/strong>, saw Galbro fall behind the others, loitering until the heavy door closed after them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[from &#8220;The Black Stranger&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>bal\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00b7us\u00c3\u201a\u00c2\u00b7ter -noun 1. One of the upright, usually rounded or vase-shaped supports of a balustrade. 2. An upright support, such as a furniture leg, having a similar shape. 3. One of the supporting posts of a handrail. [French balustre, from Italian balaustro, from balaustra, pomegranate flower (from a resemblance to the post), from Latin balaustium, [&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-759","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\/759","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=759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}