{"id":4830,"date":"2011-11-03T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T14:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=4830"},"modified":"2011-11-03T07:00:39","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T14:00:39","slug":"have-you-flibbed-lately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/4830","title":{"rendered":"Have you flibbed lately?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tFlibbertigibbet. Flipper? Flubber? Chicken giblets? Flibbets from Banjo Kazooie? We may find it a funny sounding word now, but Shakespeare thought it deft enough for the play<em> King Lear<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4912\" style=\"width: 298px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4912\" class=\"size-full wp-image wp-image-4912 \" title=\"gleaming_word-flibbertgibbet-king_lear\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gleaming_word-flibbertgibbet-king_lear.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"380\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The History of King Lear. Photo Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Jim62sch<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Act 4, Scene 1<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know it like the back of my hand, every step of the way. Poor Tom has been scared out of his mind. Bless you, good man, and stay away from the devil. Five devils haunted Poor Tom at the same time: Obidicut, the devil of lust; Hobbididence, the devil of mutes; Mahu, the devil of stealing; Modo, the devil of murder; and Flibbertigibbet, the devil of mockery, who causes chambermaids to make silly faces. Bless you, master.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Say it with me: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/audio.php?file=flibbe01&amp;word=flibbertigibbet&amp;text=%5C%3Cspan%20class%3D%22unicode%22%3E%CB%8C%3C%2Fspan%3Efli-b%C9%99r-t%C4%93-%3Cspan%20class%3D%22unicode%22%3E%CB%88%3C%2Fspan%3Eji-b%C9%99t%5C\">Flibbertigibbet<\/a><em><\/em> <em><\/em> \\fli-b\u0259r-t\u0113-\u02c8ji-b\u0259t\\<strong><\/strong> <em>noun. <\/em>A silly, flighty person.<\/p>\n<p>Have you heard about the new movie <em>Anonymous <\/em>that recently came out on October 28? <em>Anonymous<\/em> is a political thriller and costume drama that explores the Prince Tudor theory that Shakespeare was not the author of his work.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/4830\/gleaming_word-flibbertgibbet-anonymous\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4904\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image wp-image-4904\" title=\"gleaming_word-flibbertgibbet-anonymous\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/gleaming_word-flibbertgibbet-anonymous.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"288\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flibbertigibbet. Flipper? Flubber? Chicken giblets? Flibbets from Banjo Kazooie? We may find it a funny sounding word now, but Shakespeare thought it deft enough for the play King Lear. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/4830\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[57,319,370,492,809],"class_list":["post-4830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word","tag-anonymous","tag-flibbertigibbet","tag-gleaming-word-a-week","tag-king-lear","tag-shakespeare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}