{"id":109828,"date":"2016-03-14T17:06:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-14T17:06:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/14\/englishable-old-english-just-has-some-wonderful\/"},"modified":"2016-03-14T17:06:47","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T17:06:47","slug":"englishable-old-english-just-has-some-wonderful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/14\/englishable-old-english-just-has-some-wonderful\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/englishable.tumblr.com\/post\/138959969998\" target=\"_blank\">englishable<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Old English just has some wonderful words and kennings. I mean, really: <\/p>\n<p>Their word for <i>sea<\/i>? It was often <i>swan-rad<\/i> or \u201croad of the swan.\u201d <i>Spider<\/i> was <i>gangelwaefre,<\/i> literally \u201cthe walking weaver.\u201d They had the simple and now-obsolete word <i>uht,<\/i> which describes that time just before sunrise when mist still hangs heavy over all the fields and lakes and the last few stars are still out. <\/p>\n<p>\u2026Also, they didn\u2019t say <i>body.<\/i> They said <i>ban-cofan,<\/i> which means \u201cbone-cave,\u201d and if you don\u2019t think that\u2019s some hardcore shit right there then you need to get out of my face before I turn your skull into a mead-cup.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>englishable: Old English just has some wonderful words and kennings. I mean, really: Their word for sea? It was often swan-rad or \u201croad of the swan.\u201d Spider was gangelwaefre, literally \u201cthe walking weaver.\u201d They had the simple and now-obsolete word uht, which describes that time just before sunrise when mist still hangs heavy over all &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/03\/14\/englishable-old-english-just-has-some-wonderful\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[677,13119,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}