{"id":800,"date":"2007-08-29T02:17:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T09:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=800"},"modified":"2007-08-29T02:17:04","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T09:17:04","slug":"reh-word-of-the-week-skein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/reh-word-of-the-week-skein\/","title":{"rendered":"REH Word of the Week: <em>skein<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>skein<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>noun.<br \/>\n1. A length of thread or yarn wound in a loose long coil.<br \/>\n2. Something suggesting the coil of a skein; a complex tangle: <em>a twisted skein of lies<\/em>.<br \/>\n2. A flock of geese or similar birds in flight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Origin: Middle English <em>skeine<\/em>, from Old French <em>escaigne<\/em>, &#8220;a hank of yarn.&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOWARD&#8217;S USAGE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He knew men, and he knew that to gain his end he must smite straight with this tigerish barbarian, who, like a wolf scenting a snare, would scent out unerringly any falseness in the <strong>skein <\/strong>of his word-web.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[from &#8220;The Shadow Kingdom&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>skein noun. 1. A length of thread or yarn wound in a loose long coil. 2. Something suggesting the coil of a skein; a complex tangle: a twisted skein of lies. 2. A flock of geese or similar birds in flight. [Origin: Middle English skeine, from Old French escaigne, &#8220;a hank of yarn.&#8221;] HOWARD&#8217;S USAGE: [&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-800","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\/800","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=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}