{"id":219,"date":"2008-02-16T22:27:21","date_gmt":"2008-02-17T03:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=219"},"modified":"2008-02-16T22:27:21","modified_gmt":"2008-02-17T03:27:21","slug":"comic-hyperbaton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/?p=219","title":{"rendered":"Comic Hyperbaton"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t believe I’ve ever seen this in manuals of rhetoric or lists of figures of speech, but these three sentences all use the same rhetorical trick:<\/p>\n

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  1. Nice we’re having weather, isn’t it?<\/li>\n
  2. What’s a girl like you doing in a nice place like this?<\/li>\n
  3. I’ve got high friends in places all over time.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The last is the title of one of the three good songs on what is apparently the only album<\/a> by Scott McQuaig. Can anyone quote more examples? I have a feeling I’ve forgotten one or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I don’t believe I’ve ever seen this in manuals of rhetoric or lists of figures of speech, but these three sentences all use the same rhetorical trick: Nice we’re having weather, isn’t it? What’s a girl like you doing in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jokes","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curculio.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}