{"id":649,"date":"2008-03-03T10:49:02","date_gmt":"2008-03-03T17:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/03\/cellar-door\/"},"modified":"2008-03-03T10:49:02","modified_gmt":"2008-03-03T17:49:02","slug":"cellar-door","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2008\/03\/03\/cellar-door\/","title":{"rendered":"Cellar Door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know who decided that &#8220;cellar door&#8221; was the most beautiful phrase in the English language, but I have to say that I don&#8217;t agree.  Not even a little bit.  I find it to be a somewhat ugly, clumsy phrase, with little lyrical quality and, visually, with too much slant to the right.  I think about these sorts of things too much, I agree.<\/p>\n<p>Every once in a while, I write a combination of words with which I become quite pleased, and, as I glance about the room, I silently preen for a few moments before I move on with my writing.  No one ever notices, sure, but little <em>literaku<\/em> moments such as these sometimes make my whole day worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>Just now in an essay on censorship in <em>Ancien Regime<\/em> France, I wrote: <em>curtailing scurrilous printing<\/em>.  You can leave the printing out, it&#8217;s the combination of curtailing and scurrilous that I quite like, and that will make today worthwhile.<\/p>\n<p>Assuming I finish this paper soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know who decided that &#8220;cellar door&#8221; was the most beautiful phrase in the English language, but I have to say that I don&#8217;t agree. Not even a little bit. I find it to be a somewhat ugly, clumsy phrase, with little lyrical quality and, visually, with too much slant to the right. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[39,72,73,90,174,214],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}