{"id":2175,"date":"2022-03-13T05:01:32","date_gmt":"2022-03-13T05:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/13\/handsome-devil\/"},"modified":"2022-03-13T05:01:32","modified_gmt":"2022-03-13T05:01:32","slug":"handsome-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/13\/handsome-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Handsome Devil&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"> <a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c027880707568200d-pi\" style=\"float: left;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Handsome devil\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a010535ce1cf6970c027880707568200d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/.a\/6a010535ce1cf6970c027880707568200d-320wi\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;\" title=\"Handsome devil\" \/><\/a>I visited a couple of aunts some years back. As I entered her house, Aunt Ada exclaimed, &quot;My, you are a handsome devil!&quot; Aunt Margaret said to Ada, &quot;Don&#39;t call him a devil!&quot; But of course Ada did no such thing; Margaret failed to appreciate that &#39;handsome&#39; in &#39;handsome devil&#39; in this context and almost all others functions as an <em>alienans<\/em> adjective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">For more examples and a definition see my <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/adjectives\/\">adjectives<\/a> category.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I visited a couple of aunts some years back. As I entered her house, Aunt Ada exclaimed, &quot;My, you are a handsome devil!&quot; Aunt Margaret said to Ada, &quot;Don&#39;t call him a devil!&quot; But of course Ada did no such thing; Margaret failed to appreciate that &#39;handsome&#39; in &#39;handsome devil&#39; in this context and almost &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/03\/13\/handsome-devil\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Handsome Devil&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[542,92,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adjectives","category-autobiographical","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}