{"id":807,"date":"2007-09-13T06:28:37","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T13:28:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=807"},"modified":"2007-09-13T06:28:37","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T13:28:37","slug":"reh-word-of-the-week-gibbet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/reh-word-of-the-week-gibbet\/","title":{"rendered":"REH Word of the Week: <em>gibbet<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2007\/09\/gibbet.jpg\" alt=\"gibbet.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>gibbet<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>noun<br \/>\n1.\ta gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution.<\/p>\n<p>verb (used with object)<br \/>\n2.\tto hang on a gibbet.<br \/>\n3.\tto put to death by hanging on a gibbet.<br \/>\n4.\tto hold up to public scorn.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Origin: 1175-1225; ME <em>gibet<\/em> (earlier, staff or cudgel), dim. of <em>gibe<\/em>, staff, club]<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOWARD&#8217;S USAGE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;In any event you hang, either from my yard-arm or from a <strong>gibbet<\/strong> on the Port Royal wharves.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[from &#8220;Black Vulmea&#8217;s Vengeance&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gibbet noun 1. a gallows with a projecting arm at the top, from which the bodies of criminals were formerly hung in chains and left suspended after execution. verb (used with object) 2. to hang on a gibbet. 3. to put to death by hanging on a gibbet. 4. to hold up to public scorn. [&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-807","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\/807","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=807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}