{"id":6006,"date":"2011-02-08T20:54:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T01:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6006"},"modified":"2011-02-08T20:54:39","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T01:54:39","slug":"whispering-pigs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6006","title":{"rendered":"Whispering pigs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/5429258159\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.static.flickr.com\/5140\/5429258159_c2c0c4dd23.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I felt slightly off my game for most of today. I&#8217;m not really sure I know what my game <i>is<\/i>, to be perfectly honest, but I know I felt slightly off it. It was an unexciting Tuesday all around.<\/p>\n<p>I neglected to mention yesterday&#8217;s bit of Forgotten English, which is a shame, because it&#8217;s particularly nice. It&#8217;s &#8220;pig&#8217;s whisper,&#8221; meaning &#8220;a very short space of time.&#8221; One of the quotes is from Charles Dickens&#8217; <i>Pickwick Papers<\/i>, in which he wrote, &#8220;You&#8217;ll find yourself in bed in something less than a <i>pig&#8217;s whisper<\/i>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Won&#8217;t one, though?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I felt slightly off my game for most of today. I&#8217;m not really sure I know what my game is, to be perfectly honest, but I know I felt slightly off it. It was an unexciting Tuesday all around. I neglected to mention yesterday&#8217;s bit of Forgotten English, which is a shame, because it&#8217;s particularly &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=6006\">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":[64,28],"class_list":["post-6006","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-language","tag-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006"}],"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=6006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}