{"id":343,"date":"2011-10-03T21:37:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T03:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.planetmanuel.com\/dirk\/?p=343"},"modified":"2011-10-03T21:40:30","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T03:40:30","slug":"learning-from-the-decemberists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.planetmanuel.com\/dirk\/learning-from-the-decemberists\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning from The Decemberists"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rock’s most erudite lyricist. 10 new (old) words courtesy of The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy:<\/p>\n

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  1. Palanquin<\/strong> (The Infanta<\/em>) – A covered seat on poles carried by bearers<\/li>\n
  2. Dirigible<\/strong> (Sons & Daughters<\/em>) – An airship<\/li>\n
  3. Fontanelle<\/strong> (The Crane Wife 1 & 2<\/em>) – any of the spaces closed by membranous structures between the uncompleted angles of the parietal bones and the neighboring bones of a fetal or young skull<\/li>\n
  4. Tarlatan<\/strong> (The Gymnast, High Above The Ground<\/em>) – Heavy cotton fabric<\/li>\n
  5. Bombazine<\/strong> (The Soldiering Life<\/em>) – A twilled fabric with silk warp and worsted filling<\/li>\n
  6. Laudanum<\/strong> (The Legionnaire’s Lament<\/em>)- An alcoholic herbal preparation containing approximately 10% powdered opium<\/li>\n
  7. Tamarack<\/strong> (Eli, The Barrow Boy<\/em>) – A type of larch<\/li>\n
  8. Solanum<\/strong> (When The War Came<\/em>) – Nighshade<\/li>\n
  9. Bagatelle<\/strong> (The Legionnaire’s Lament<\/em>) – A trifling matter<\/li>\n
  10. Parallax<\/strong> (The Island<\/em>) – The apparent difference in direction of a moving object when seen from two different viewpoints<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Rock’s most erudite lyricist. 10 new (old) words courtesy of The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy: Palanquin (The Infanta) – A covered seat on poles […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aside"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.planetmanuel.com\/dirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.planetmanuel.com\/dirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.planetmanuel.com\/dirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.planetmanuel.com\/dirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.planetmanuel.com\/dirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.planetmanuel.com\/dirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"http:\/\/www.planetmanuel.com\/dirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.planetmanuel.com\/dirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.planetmanuel.com\/dirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.planetmanuel.com\/dirk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}