{"id":14405,"date":"2014-08-16T20:13:54","date_gmt":"2014-08-17T01:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=14405"},"modified":"2014-08-16T20:13:54","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T01:13:54","slug":"tom-swifties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=14405","title":{"rendered":"Tom Swifties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Wikipedia explains it, &#8220;A Tom Swifty (or Tom Swiftie) is\u00c2\u00a0a phrase in which a quoted sentence is linked by a pun to the manner in which it is attributed.&#8221; It was named after the\u00c2\u00a0<em>Tom Swift<\/em> book series which began in 1910.<\/p>\n<p>A few examples may be the best way to explain the format:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;It&#8217;s freezing&#8221;, Tom muttered icily.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I might as well be dead,&#8221; Tom croaked.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;I don&#8217;t have any more flowers,&#8221; Tom said lackadaisically.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Pass me the shellfish,&#8221; said Tom crabbily.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Let&#8217;s see some more Tom Swifties!&#8221; Piggy promptly exclaimed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Wikipedia explains it, &#8220;A Tom Swifty (or Tom Swiftie) is\u00c2\u00a0a phrase in which a quoted sentence is linked by a pun to the manner in which it is attributed.&#8221; It was named after the\u00c2\u00a0Tom Swift book series which began in 1910. A few examples may be the best way to explain the format: &#8220;It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/?p=14405\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tom Swifties&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-by-mbers","category-nonrandom-craziness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14406,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14405\/revisions\/14406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}