{"id":171,"date":"2011-02-07T00:27:35","date_gmt":"2011-02-07T05:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/?p=171"},"modified":"2013-04-17T11:59:05","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T16:59:05","slug":"almanac-slang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/171\/","title":{"rendered":"Almanac &#8211; Slang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our almanac entry this week is <a href=\"http:\/\/snowbynight.com\/almanac\/language.php\" target=\"_blank\">slang<\/a>. You can find it under Language in the Culture section of the Almanac. I love playing with language and developing the slang &#8211; or &#8220;cant&#8221; &#8211; for Sherbourg has been a fun experiment. I began with <em>The Vulgar Tongue<\/em> by Francis Grose (first published in 1785) but I&#8217;ve expanded from that work to include terms from other source as well as those of \u00a0my own creation. I have pages of various terms but I&#8217;m going to introduce them slowly as the story demands. So expect this section to continually grow throughout the tale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our almanac entry this week is slang. You can find it under Language in the Culture section of the Almanac. I love playing with language and developing the slang &#8211; or &#8220;cant&#8221; &#8211; for Sherbourg has been a fun experiment. I began with The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose (first published in 1785) but I&#8217;ve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-almanac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3127,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions\/3127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.snowbynight.com\/Journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}