{"id":1596,"date":"2007-04-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.draumrpublishing.com\/blog\/?p=1596"},"modified":"2007-04-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T04:00:00","slug":"x-is-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/2007\/04\/25\/x-is-for\/","title":{"rendered":"X is for&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>X marks the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm.  X is another tricky one.  Some words SOUND like X &#8211; excited, exactly excised &#8211; but that sneaky E nabs them.  Unfair&#33;  Problematical&#33;  <\/p>\n<p>And lots of other apparent X words are just abbreviations, like X-ray, Xmas, and X-Over.  Cheating.<\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s X-Rated&#8230;but we&#39;re a family blog here. <\/p>\n<p>So.  <\/p>\n<p>X is for&#8230;Xanadu&#33;<\/p>\n<p> An idyllic, exotic place of great luxury.<\/p>\n<p>[After Xanadu, a place in Samuel Taylor Coleridge&#39;s poem titled Kubla Khan.]<\/p>\n<p>Works for me.  After this April, I&#39;m ready for several trips to Xanadu.<\/p>\n<p>Just going to pass on that whole Olivia Newton-John angle, thanks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Robert<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X marks the spot.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm.  X is another tricky one.  Some words SOUND like X &#8211; excited, exactly excised &#8211; but that sneaky E nabs them.  Unfair&#33;  Problematical&#33;  <\/p>\n<p>And lots of other apparent X words are just abbreviations, like X-ray, Xmas, and X-Over.  Cheating.<\/p>\n<p>There&#39;s X-Rated&#8230;but we&#39;re a family blog here. <\/p>\n<p>So.  <\/p>\n<p>X is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","has-single-img"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ridaallen.com\/blogged\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}