{"id":3380,"date":"2010-08-11T17:02:19","date_gmt":"2010-08-11T16:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=3380"},"modified":"2010-08-11T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-11T16:02:19","slug":"fascinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=3380","title":{"rendered":"Fascinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/fascinator.gif\" width=\"109\" height=\"200\" align=\"right\" style=\"margin:0 0 20px 20px;\" alt=\"An example of a fascinator\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I learnt a new word from the radio this morning &#8211; <strong>fascinator<\/strong>. They were talking about hats and somebody mentions the fascinator, something I hadn&#8217;t heard of before.<\/p>\n<p>A fascinator or facinator hat is: &#8220;a small headpiece usually mounted on a base, comb or headband worn jauntily to the front or side incorporating a combination of feathers, flowers, coils, curls and other trimmings.&#8221; [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hatsnstuff.co.uk\/faq.asp\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>Apparently the fascintor was originally a fine, lacy head covering made of wool or lace and like a shawl. It went out of fashion in the 1970s, but has made a come-back recently in a different form. They are almost exclusively worn by women, especially to special occasions like weddings and big race meetings such as Ascot. [<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fascinator\">Source<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learnt a new word from the radio this morning &#8211; fascinator. They were talking about hats and somebody mentions the fascinator, something I hadn&#8217;t heard of before. A fascinator or facinator hat is: &#8220;a small headpiece usually mounted on a base, comb or headband worn jauntily to the front or side incorporating a combination [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}