{"id":16113,"date":"2008-12-06T23:13:34","date_gmt":"2008-12-07T04:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16113"},"modified":"2014-10-15T10:22:20","modified_gmt":"2014-10-15T14:22:20","slug":"vilipendious-dastardlings-and-balatronic-yazzihampers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/06\/vilipendious-dastardlings-and-balatronic-yazzihampers\/","title":{"rendered":"Vilipendious dastardlings and balatronic yazzihampers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Peters, writing over at the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oup.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford University Press blog<\/a>, offers up <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oup.com\/2008\/12\/contemptible\/\" target=\"_blank\">an essay on what he considers contemptibly obscure words<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>He urges us all to express our contempt &#8220;in something other than a clich&#233;d, groan-inducing fashion.&#8221;  To help us in this task, he provides a list of archaic taunts &#8220;which have gone as far out of fashion as your seventh-grade haircut.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Please join him as he attempts to rescue them, or consider yourself nothing more than a dunderdoof!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Peters, writing over at the Oxford University Press blog, offers up an essay on what he considers contemptibly obscure words. He urges us all to express our contempt &#8220;in something other than a clich&#233;d, groan-inducing fashion.&#8221; To help us in this task, he provides a list of archaic taunts &#8220;which have gone as far [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16114,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16113\/revisions\/16114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}