{"id":123,"date":"2024-11-06T10:28:43","date_gmt":"2024-11-06T18:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/?p=123"},"modified":"2024-11-06T10:28:43","modified_gmt":"2024-11-06T18:28:43","slug":"shanks-mare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/2024\/11\/06\/shanks-mare\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanks&#8217; Mare"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>Shanks&#8217; (or\u00a0Shanks&#8217;s) mare, pony<\/strong>, etc.: one&#8217;s own legs as a means of conveyance.<\/p>\n<cite><em>Oxford English Dictionary<\/em>, s.v. \u201c&#8217;Shanks&#8217; mare&#8217; in shank (n.), sense 1.b,\u201d June 2024, <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/OED\/1175946221\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/OED\/1175946221<\/a>.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The part of the leg from the knee to the ankle being the <em>shank<\/em>, if I use my own legs in place of a horse (possibly one I cannot afford) then I am travelling by <em>shanks&#8217; mare<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Clap the darbies on me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[33,17],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wording","tag-walking","tag-words","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelkeating.com\/commonplace\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}