{"id":3265,"date":"2011-05-21T07:43:55","date_gmt":"2011-05-21T11:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=3265"},"modified":"2011-05-21T07:43:55","modified_gmt":"2011-05-21T11:43:55","slug":"the-not-idle-at-all-word-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=3265","title":{"rendered":"The “Not Idle At All” Word Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

I like spreading verbiage like icing a cake, thick, creamy, and luscious.\u00a0 If I can write words that sound sweet together or that create an effect or that make a rhyme or pun or joke, I’ll try it.\u00a0 The title of the post, Not Idle At All<\/a>, is an example.<\/p>\n

I hear the two words, “at” and “all,” when I say them together, “at all,” as sounding a lot like the single word, “idle,” the word they follow.\u00a0 I hear it as almost a rhyme, close enough for me to like it anyway.\u00a0 I attempted to give the article a title with an almost rhyming play on words I put together\u00a0based on their sound.\u00a0 Say the\u00a0three words in a row several times: “idle at all,” “idle at all,” “idle at all.”\u00a0 Do you hear it?<\/p>\n

Listen for words that sound alike.\u00a0\u00a0Repeat them aloud when you hear or read them.\u00a0 Let their sound fill your mouth and roll off your tongue, filling the room with a sonorous word tune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like spreading verbiage like icing a cake, thick, creamy, and luscious.\u00a0 If I can write words that sound sweet together or that create an effect or that make a rhyme or pun or joke, I’ll try it.\u00a0 The title … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,13],"tags":[445,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3265"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3290,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3265\/revisions\/3290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}