{"id":1901,"date":"2016-09-14T23:36:40","date_gmt":"2016-09-14T22:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=1901"},"modified":"2016-09-14T23:36:40","modified_gmt":"2016-09-14T22:36:40","slug":"a-scottish-riddle-hobbity-bobbity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2016\/09\/14\/a-scottish-riddle-hobbity-bobbity\/","title":{"rendered":"A Scottish riddle, Hobbity-bobbity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Scottish riddle, published 1881 in <em>Notes on the Folk-lore of the North-east of Scotland<\/em> (Folk-lore Society).  As far as I can tell it doesn&#8217;t seem to have been noticed in the assiduous search for the origin of the word &#8220;Hobbit&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Q: &#8220;Hobbity-bobbity sits on this side o&#8217; the burn, Hobbity-bobbity sits on that side o&#8217; the burn, An gehn ye touch hobbity-bobbity, Hobbity-bobbity &#8216;ill bite you ?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>A: &#8220;A nettle.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Scottish riddle, published 1881 in Notes on the Folk-lore of the North-east of Scotland (Folk-lore Society). As far as I can tell it doesn&#8217;t seem to have been noticed in the assiduous search for the origin of the word &#8220;Hobbit&#8221;&#8230; Q: &#8220;Hobbity-bobbity sits on this side o&#8217; the burn, Hobbity-bobbity sits on that side [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1901\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}