{"id":1146,"date":"2008-06-24T13:03:15","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T17:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2008-06-24T13:07:02","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T17:07:02","slug":"to-couch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/24\/to-couch\/","title":{"rendered":"To Couch:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Dictionary.com:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/couch\" target=\"_blank\">couch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>1. a piece of furniture for seating from two to four people, typically in the form of a bench with a back, sometimes having an armrest at one or each end, and partly or wholly upholstered and often fitted with springs, tailored cushions, skirts, etc.; sofa.<br \/>\n2. a similar article of furniture, with a headrest at one end, on which some patients of psychiatrists or psychoanalysts lie while undergoing treatment.<br \/>\n3. a bed or other place of rest; a lounge; any place used for repose.<br \/>\n4. the lair of a wild beast.<br \/>\n5. to express indirectly or obscurely: <span class=\"ital-inline\">the threat couched under his polite speech. <\/span><br \/>\n6. to lower (a spear, lance, etc.) to a horizontal position, as for attack.<br \/>\n7. to put or lay down, as for rest or sleep; cause to lie down.<br \/>\n8. to lay or spread flat.<br \/>\n9. to hide; conceal.<br \/>\n10. to lie at rest or asleep; repose; recline.<br \/>\n11. to crouch; bend; stoop.<br \/>\n12. to lie in ambush or in hiding; lurk.<br \/>\n13. to lie in a heap for decomposition or fermentation, as leaves.<\/p>\n<p>I would offer <a href=\"http:\/\/cnews.canoe.ca\/CNEWS\/WeirdNews\/2008\/06\/20\/5940501-ap.html\" target=\"_blank\">this man<\/a> as proof of at least #3, #7, #9, #12 and of course #1.\u00c2\u00a0 He probably seriously freaked out his ex-girlfriend, whom he was stalking at the time.\u00c2\u00a0 At best he&#8217;s just an honorable mention, a (re)poseur in the game of living unknown inside someone else&#8217;s home.\u00c2\u00a0 That distinction is still held by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/02\/train-of-thought\/\" target=\"_blank\">closet lady<\/a>, hands down, the best ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Dictionary.com: couch 1. a piece of furniture for seating from two to four people, typically in the form of a bench with a back, sometimes having an armrest at one or each end, and partly or wholly upholstered and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/24\/to-couch\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-stupidity"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-iu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}