{"id":14594,"date":"2021-05-22T21:09:13","date_gmt":"2021-05-22T20:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=14594"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:46:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:46:22","slug":"daily_2319_-_puce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2021\/05\/22\/daily_2319_-_puce\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2319 – puce"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nMy latest pair of socks.<\/p>\n

I was trying to think of a word to describe the colour. It’s sort of a muted brownish red.<\/p>\n

In a book I recently read someone got a new coat, the brownish-red colour of which his fashion-conscious friend found incredibly offensive because<\/p>\n

\nIt was puce. There was no denying that. It was well fitted, well styled, with a most pleasing swing to the tails, and it was a deep tone that could not be explained away as brown, or red, or anything but puce.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The English language has no shortage of fancy words for colours where other languages make do, and I thought I’d come across most of them by now. I wasn’t familiar with puce, though, so I didn’t understand why it would be so objectionable.<\/p>\n

It turns out that the colour is called “puce” (which is French for “flea”) because supposedly it is the colour of bloodstains on bedsheets after a crushed flea. Which is actually kind of icky.<\/p>\n

Now I can’t get that idea out of my mind when I look at these socks. But I still like them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My latest pair of socks. I was trying to think of a word to describe the colour. It’s sort of a muted brownish red. In a book I recently read someone got a new coat, the brownish-red colour of which his fashion-conscious friend found incredibly offensive because It was puce. There was no denying that. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,784,4,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-knitting","category-observing_the_self","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14596,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14594\/revisions\/14596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}