{"id":10017,"date":"2014-01-24T22:02:50","date_gmt":"2014-01-25T03:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quiltr.com\/?p=10017"},"modified":"2014-01-24T22:02:50","modified_gmt":"2014-01-25T03:02:50","slug":"words-learned-along-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=10017","title":{"rendered":"Words learned along the way"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In our sonnet-session last night we talked about The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins and the word sillion came up. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>  No wonder of it: sh\u00e9er pl\u00f3d makes plough down <strong>sillion<\/strong><br \/>\nShine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear,<br \/>\n    Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion.<br \/>\n\u2013 from The Windhover, by Gerard Manley Hopkins<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Our teacher told us it meant the shine of new plowed fields and when I remembered to google it (it not being found in my iphone oxford):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sillion: Coined by Gerard Manley Hopkins in his 1877 (published posthumously in 1918) poem The Windhover?; perhaps from French sillon (\u201cfurrow\u201d).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No wonder of it: sh\u00e9er pl\u00f3d makes plough down sillion <a href=\"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/?p=10017\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[147,163],"tags":[36,571],"class_list":["post-10017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry-and-lyrics","category-words","tag-poems-lyrics","tag-words"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3FVAs-2Bz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10018,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10017\/revisions\/10018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quiltr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}