{"id":95,"date":"2011-04-24T09:19:21","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T16:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johnworsley.name\/?page_id=95"},"modified":"2011-04-24T09:19:21","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T16:19:21","slug":"theoride","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/?page_id=95","title":{"rendered":"Theoride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(THEE-oh-ride)  A noun, denoting a container or vessel that carries sacred messages.  Derived from the Greek word <code>\u03b8\u03b5\u03c9\u03c1\u1f77\u03c2<\/code>, meaning \u201ca sacred ship which carried the <code>\u03b8\u03b5\u03c9\u03c1\u03bf\u1f77<\/code>.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>A <code>\u03b8\u03b5\u03c9\u03c1\u03cc\u03c2<\/code> was an ambassadorlike person sent to consult an oracle, or to present an offering \u2014 such as the people who Athens sent to Delphi.  A bottle with a written prayer in it, thrown into a river, would be a theoride.  As is consistent with the derivation, we often, though not always, hope for a response when we send off a theoride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(THEE-oh-ride) A noun, denoting a container or vessel that carries sacred messages. Derived from the Greek word \u03b8\u03b5\u03c9\u03c1\u1f77\u03c2, meaning \u201ca sacred ship which carried the \u03b8\u03b5\u03c9\u03c1\u03bf\u1f77.\u201d A \u03b8\u03b5\u03c9\u03c1\u03cc\u03c2 was an ambassadorlike person sent to consult an oracle, or to present an offering \u2014 such as the people who Athens sent to Delphi. A bottle with&hellip;<\/p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/?page_id=95\" title=\"Theoride\" class=\"entry-more-link\"><span>Read More<\/span> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Theoride<\/span><\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"Layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["entry","author-me","post-95","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/95\/revisions\/100"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johnworsley.name\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}