{"id":10626,"date":"2012-12-23T23:46:06","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T04:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=10626"},"modified":"2012-12-23T23:51:33","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T04:51:33","slug":"quintessence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=10626","title":{"rendered":"Quintessence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>&#8220;Palindrome&#8221; is not a palindrome, which is very sad indeed,<br \/>\nBecause then we&#8217;d have &#8220;Emordnilap&#8221;, but that is not a word.<\/p>\n<p>Acronyms can resonate, offer namesakes, yet mislead.<br \/>\nCould there an acronym for that?   &nbsp; (there is, I&#8217;ve heard)<\/p>\n<p>And what could be the basis of hypocatastasis?<br \/>\nYou may find it to be nothing more than &#8220;Cart before the horse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But try to lead that horse to water!  My friend, it&#8217;s no oasis.<br \/>\nYou realize I&#8217;m speaking metaphorically, of course.<\/p>\n<p>Why is &#8220;onomatopeia&#8221; not onomatopoetic?<br \/>\n(I&#8217;ve pondered this since early adolescence)<\/p>\n<p>Yet one word in the ether matches meaning and aesthetic:<br \/>\n&#8220;Quintessence&#8221; &#8212; it&#8217;s the quintessence of quintessence!<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Palindrome&#8221; is not a palindrome, which is very sad indeed, Because then we&#8217;d have &#8220;Emordnilap&#8221;, but that is not a word. Acronyms can resonate, offer namesakes, yet mislead. Could there an acronym for that? &nbsp; (there is, I&#8217;ve heard) And what could be the basis of hypocatastasis? You may find it to be nothing more &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=10626\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Quintessence&#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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10626"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10655,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10626\/revisions\/10655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}