{"id":9394,"date":"2010-06-19T12:09:54","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T16:09:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=9394"},"modified":"2010-06-19T12:09:54","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T16:09:54","slug":"five-favorite-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=9394","title":{"rendered":"Five Favorite Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/archive\/2010\/06\/five-words-you-love\/58327\/'>Hampton Stevens<\/a>, subbing for Ta-Nehisi Coates, asks readers to name their five favorite words. OK then. In no order, I give you:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/Slathered\">Slathered<\/a> - Thanks to the way Cormac McCarthy used it in \"Blood Meridian\".\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/Astringent\">Astringent<\/a>. It's nearly onomatopoetic - except it sounds like it <em>is<\/em>, not like the noise it makes.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/Interstitial\">Interstitial<\/a>. Spaces between the big things. I like that.\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/Sylvan\">Sylvan<\/a>. Who among us does not like a tree?\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/flense\">Flense<\/a>. What it describes is gruesome. But it <i>sounds<\/i> lovely.\n<\/ul>\n<p>I'm all about the S and the L.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hampton Stevens, subbing for Ta-Nehisi Coates, asks readers to name their five favorite words. OK then. In no order, I give you: Slathered - Thanks to the way Cormac McCarthy used it in \"Blood Meridian\". Astringent. It's nearly onomatopoetic - except it sounds like it is, not like the noise it makes. Interstitial. Spaces between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}