{"id":2103,"date":"2004-01-07T16:48:05","date_gmt":"2004-01-08T08:48:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/08\/zeugma\/"},"modified":"2019-12-09T14:56:53","modified_gmt":"2019-12-09T22:56:53","slug":"zeugma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/01\/07\/zeugma\/","title":{"rendered":"Zeugma"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12417,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.neilgaiman.com\\\/journal\\\/2004_01_04_archive.asp#107351384513201751&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260120144320\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.neilgaiman.com\\\/journal\\\/2004_01_04_archive.asp&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-11 22:57:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 06:17:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 06:17:56&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Cool word of the day: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neilgaiman.com\/journal\/2004_01_04_archive.asp#107351384513201751\" title=\"Neil Gaiman's blog: nebula zeugma firebird\">zeugma<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Zeugma is a word for when you make a verb do several functions at the same time (eg. &#8220;I left in a foul mood and a black taxi&#8221;). Flanders and Swann&#8217;s song &#8220;Have Some Madeira M&#8217;Dear&#8221; employes quadruple zeugma in each verse, which is dead impressive; the relevant lines are:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n    And he said as he hastened to put out the cat,<br \/>\n    The wine, his cigar and the lamps<\/p>\n<p>    She lowered her standards by raising her glass,<br \/>\n    Her courage, her eyes and his hopes.<\/p>\n<p>    When he asked, &#8220;What in Heaven?&#8221; She made no reply,<br \/>\n    Up her mind, and a dash for the door.\n  <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I love things like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cool word of the day: zeugma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-2103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}