{"id":12352,"date":"2008-11-29T08:30:15","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T08:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/muckinder.html"},"modified":"2008-11-29T08:30:15","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T08:30:15","slug":"muckinder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2008\/11\/29\/muckinder.html","title":{"rendered":"Muckinder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"width\"><font face=\"arial,helvetica\">A child&#8217;s handkerchief tied to the side.          <br \/><\/font><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Handkerchiefs have never had a place in my life. The results of a nose blow do not belong in a monogrammed piece of silk or flannel, nor does that piece of snot-stained fabric belong in my pocket. The seemingly obligatory withdrawal of the handkerchief when someone cries or sneezes is additionally puzzling to me. Re-usable snot rags? What genteel society presented this unsanitary notion?<\/p>\n<p>Now, I do not know what handkerchiefs are made of. Maybe the fabrics resemble porcelain in their ability to deflect stains and absorption of foul matter.<\/p>\n<p>Nose-blowing is a strange cultural taboo. It is neither intimate nor is it something you share. <\/p>\n<p>But this issue is one with which I could fill screen after gross-out screen, and it&#8217;s not the time for that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A child&#8217;s handkerchief tied to the side.<\/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_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-12352","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-3de","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352","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=12352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}