{"id":10643,"date":"2013-01-29T09:24:38","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T08:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=10643"},"modified":"2013-01-29T09:24:38","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T08:24:38","slug":"word-of-the-day-paraprosdokian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=10643","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: paraprosdokian"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected and frequently humorous. Winston Churchill was keen on the concept.<\/p>\n<p>A few examples are:<\/p>\n<p>1. Where there&#8217;s a will, I want to be in it.<\/p>\n<p>2. Since light travels faster than sound, some people appear bright until you hear them speak.<\/p>\n<p>3. If I agreed with you, we&#8217;d both be wrong.<\/p>\n<p>4. We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.<\/p>\n<p>5. War does not determine who is right &#8211; only who is left.<\/p>\n<p>Further information and examples <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paraprosdokian\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A paraprosdokian is a figure of speech in which the latter part of a sentence or phrase is surprising or unexpected and frequently humorous. Winston Churchill was keen on the concept. A few examples are: 1. Where there&#8217;s a will, I want to be in it. 2. Since light travels faster than sound, some people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10643"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10654,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10643\/revisions\/10654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}