{"id":5133,"date":"2010-11-11T22:21:51","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T03:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5133"},"modified":"2010-11-11T22:21:51","modified_gmt":"2010-11-12T03:21:51","slug":"a-day-of-doubtful-etymology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5133","title":{"rendered":"A day of doubtful etymology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/5167634222\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4125\/5167634222_e35c829da2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Forgotten English word for today is &#8220;dowlk,&#8221; which is &#8220;a word of doubtful etymology, but signifying the downy plumage of a bird.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, as everybody knows, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=npjOSLCR2hE\">the plumage doesn&#8217;t enter into it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I had to work, despite the Veteran&#8217;s Day holiday, but I&#8217;m taking tomorrow off as part of a just-for-the-heck-of-it three-day weekend. Our office is just a block from 5th Avenue (and the New York Public Library), so we&#8217;re pretty close to every holiday&#8217;s parade route &#8212; today&#8217;s included. The photo up above is actually from a few blocks further uptown, maybe around 50th and 5th, but it was a beautiful day for a parade.<\/p>\n<p>And, honestly, if anyone&#8217;s deserving of it, it&#8217;s certainly our veterans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Forgotten English word for today is &#8220;dowlk,&#8221; which is &#8220;a word of doubtful etymology, but signifying the downy plumage of a bird.&#8221; Of course, as everybody knows, the plumage doesn&#8217;t enter into it. I had to work, despite the Veteran&#8217;s Day holiday, but I&#8217;m taking tomorrow off as part of a just-for-the-heck-of-it three-day weekend. &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=5133\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[28,52],"class_list":["post-5133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-personal","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5133\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}