{"id":12305,"date":"2008-10-13T08:30:36","date_gmt":"2008-10-13T08:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/hornobbed.html"},"modified":"2008-10-13T08:30:36","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T08:30:36","slug":"hornobbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2008\/10\/13\/hornobbed.html","title":{"rendered":"Hornobbed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"width\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica\">To drink familiarly (with another).<\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>With another what?<\/p>\n<p>Another gin? Another loaf of bread? Another lonely night?<\/p>\n<p>A good and trustworthy drinking buddy is hard to find. What are the requirements? Know your friend well enough to recognize what matters and what does not matter. Forget what does not matter, and remember the rest. Forget most things, if not immediately then by 4pm.<\/p>\n<p>I could get all elegiac about this but I am kind of drunk right now.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite drinking song? Mary Hopkin: Those Were The Days.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><i>Once upon a time, there was a tavern<br \/> Where we used to raise a glass or two<br \/> Remember how we laughed away the hours,<br \/> Think of all the great things we would do<\/p>\n<p> Those were the days, my friend<br \/> We thought they&#8217;d never end<br \/> We&#8217;d sing and dance forever and a day<br \/> We&#8217;d live the life we&#8217;d choose<br \/> We&#8217;d fight and never lose<br \/> For we were young and sure to have our way<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mary Hopkin looks a lot like a one-time and once-in-a-while drinking friend. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To drink familiarly (with another).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-3ct","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}