{"id":57164,"date":"2017-01-25T00:14:44","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T00:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/disappearing_idioms-whistling_past_the_graveyard\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T00:14:44","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T00:14:44","slug":"disappearing_idioms-whistling_past_the_graveyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57164","title":{"rendered":"Disappearing Idioms&#8211;Whistling Past the Graveyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be two meanings for this idiom, both dependent on the same metaphoric setting and action \u201d\u201d but while one is mostly positive, the other, not so much. The first connotes a situation in which a person does something (whistling, maybe?) to make of show \u201d\u201c to others, or even more commonly, to oneself \u201d\u201d of bravery, or at least nonchalance, in the face of danger or difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>The second meaning describes an individual who is genuinely confident and cheerful while in pursuit of a course of action at the same time blithely oblivious to the real risks involved \u201d\u201c i.e., clueless.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/disappearingidioms.com\/whistling-past-the-graveyard\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There seems to be two meanings for this idiom, both dependent on the same metaphoric setting and action \u201d\u201d but while one is mostly positive, the other, not so much. The first connotes a situation in which a person does<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=57164\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,133,122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-history","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}