{"id":66,"date":"2007-07-06T14:27:39","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T14:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/06\/comedy-word-of-the-day-defenestration\/"},"modified":"2007-07-06T14:27:39","modified_gmt":"2007-07-06T14:27:39","slug":"comedy-word-of-the-day-defenestration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/06\/comedy-word-of-the-day-defenestration\/","title":{"rendered":"Comedy Word of the Day: Defenestration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Defenestration<\/strong> &#8211; The act of throwing something (particularly a person) out of a window!<\/p>\n<p>What amuses me most about the word, is that to De-&#8230;. something is to normally take away something, e.g. to de-throne.  So the word implies that in not being thrown through a window, you are perpetually in a state of &#8220;Fenestration&#8221;!  And were you to be thrown through a window, and then thrown back again, would that mean you were REfenestrated?!?<\/p>\n<p>I love the way the web answers questions I didn&#8217;t even know I had!<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Etymology of Defenestration<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>1620, &#8220;the action of throwing out of a window,&#8221; from L. fenestra &#8220;window.&#8221; <strong>A word invented for one incident: the &#8220;Defenestration of Prague,&#8221; <\/strong>May 21, 1618, when two Catholic deputies to the Bohemian national assembly and a secretary were tossed out the window (into a moat) of the castle of Hradshin by Protestant radicals.<strong> It marked the start of the Thirty Years War.<\/strong> Some linguists link fenestra with Gk. verb phainein &#8220;to show;&#8221; others see in it an Etruscan borrowing, based on the suffix -(s)tra, as in L. loan-words aplustre &#8220;the carved stern of a ship with its ornaments,&#8221; genista &#8220;the plant broom,&#8221; lanista &#8220;trainer of gladiators.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defenestration &#8211; The act of throwing something (particularly a person) out of a window! What amuses me most about the word, is that to De-&#8230;. something is to normally take away something, e.g. to de-throne. So the word implies that in not being thrown through a window, you are perpetually in a state of &#8220;Fenestration&#8221;! [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-66","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.colinmcnulty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}