{"id":4108,"date":"2019-03-19T09:50:20","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T09:50:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2019-03-19T09:50:20","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T09:50:20","slug":"upmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=4108","title":{"rendered":"Upmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Should time weigh heavy on your hands, I can recommend looking up the word &#8220;up&#8221; in a dictionary.\u00a0 Hithered there on a quest for the etymology of <em>upholster<\/em>, I was reminded of swan upping &#8211; driving the swans upstream so that they may be coralled and identified.\u00a0 Given that these avian grandes d\u00e2mes might be a bit uppity, one might give up easily.\u00a0 Uptear and upthrow are actual words,\u00a0 whilst upmaking is the practice of filling a ship&#8217;s bilges before is launched.<\/p>\n<p>Upholster is a back formation (it says here) from uphold.\u00a0 As ever, I am uplifted by this increase in my lexicography.<\/p>\n<p>Just in case that leaves you in an uppish frame of mind, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/bCuhuePlP8o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here&#8217;s a tear jerker.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Should time weigh heavy on your hands, I can recommend looking up the word &#8220;up&#8221; in a dictionary.\u00a0 Hithered there on a quest for the etymology of upholster, I was reminded of swan upping &#8211; driving the swans upstream so that they may be coralled and identified.\u00a0 Given that these avian grandes d\u00e2mes might be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kirsty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}