{"id":844,"date":"2007-10-31T15:12:15","date_gmt":"2007-10-31T22:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/?p=844"},"modified":"2007-10-31T15:12:15","modified_gmt":"2007-10-31T22:12:15","slug":"reh-word-of-the-week-puncher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/reh-word-of-the-week-puncher\/","title":{"rendered":"REH Word of the Week: <em>puncher<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/2007\/10\/cowpunchers.jpg\" alt=\"cowpunchers.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>puncher<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>noun<br \/>\n1. \ta hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback [syn: cowpuncher, cowboy]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[Origin: 1875-80, so named for prodding the cattle when herding]<\/p>\n<p><strong>HOWARD&#8217;S USAGE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Laramie crawled along a few feet to put himself out of range of the rifleman on the rim, then shouted: &#8220;Slim! Swing wide of that trail and come up here with yore men!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He was understood, for presently Slim and the three surviving <strong>punchers<\/strong> came crawling over the tangle of rocks, having necessarily abandoned their horses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>[from &#8220;The Last Ride&#8221;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>puncher noun 1. a hired hand who tends cattle and performs other duties on horseback [syn: cowpuncher, cowboy] [Origin: 1875-80, so named for prodding the cattle when herding] HOWARD&#8217;S USAGE: Laramie crawled along a few feet to put himself out of range of the rifleman on the rim, then shouted: &#8220;Slim! Swing wide of that [&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-844","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\/844","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=844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/leogrin.com\/CimmerianBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}