{"id":399,"date":"2012-02-07T15:10:17","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T12:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.helsinki.fi\/kaislani\/?p=399"},"modified":"2012-02-07T15:10:17","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T12:10:17","slug":"on-the-wagon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/2012\/02\/07\/on-the-wagon\/","title":{"rendered":"on the wagon"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>charrette<\/strong>,\u00a0<em>n<\/em>. a final, intensive effort to finish a project before a deadline<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thus saith <a href=\"http:\/\/www.futilitycloset.com\/2012\/02\/02\/in-a-word-355\/\">Futility Closet<\/a>. And I thought, there&#8217;s a definition of my state if ever one was.\u00a0But of course one has to check these things (words) in the OED, which says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>charet | charette<\/strong>, <em>n<\/em>. <em>Obs.<\/em>\u00a0A wheeled vehicle or conveyance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>..que? Only by scrolling to the bottom, there is more:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Draft additions March 2007<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chiefly <em>N. Amer<\/em>. (orig. <em>Archit<\/em>.). A period of intense (group) work, typically undertaken in order to meet a deadline.<\/p>\n<p>[Probably originally with reference to the former custom among French architecture students of using a cart to carry their work on the day of an exhibition: see <em>Tr\u00e9sor de la Langue Fran\u00e7aise<\/em> s.v. <em>charrette<\/em>.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A relatively new coinage, then. I&#8217;ll still take it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>charrette,\u00a0n. a final, intensive effort to finish a project before a deadline Thus saith Futility Closet. And I thought, there&#8217;s a definition of my state if ever one was.\u00a0But of course one has to check these things (words) in the OED, which says: charet | charette, n. Obs.\u00a0A wheeled vehicle or conveyance. ..que? Only by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36,43,48],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aside","tag-language","tag-meta","tag-phd","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samuli.kaislaniemi.fi\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}