{"id":119,"date":"2009-10-27T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-10-28T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/glenbrammell.com\/?p=119"},"modified":"2009-10-27T21:00:08","modified_gmt":"2009-10-28T02:00:08","slug":"three-sheets-to-the-wind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/2009\/10\/27\/three-sheets-to-the-wind\/","title":{"rendered":"Three sheets to the wind"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is always interesting to me find out more about our language. Every once in awhile you may hear a word or a phrase and wonder how it came to be. I have heard the expression three sheets to the wind and I finally heard an explanation of its origins. It seems to have been invented on the high seas.<\/p>\n<p>This particular expression of being drunk comes from the fact that the word \u201csheet\u201d is the term for a rope that controls a square sail on a ship. The sails are uncontrollable if the sheets are loose and the ship will drift until the situation is corrected. Thus came the phrase three sheets to the wind!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is always interesting to me find out more about our language. Every once in awhile you may hear a word or a phrase and wonder how it came to be. I have heard the expression three sheets to the wind and I finally heard an explanation of its origins. It seems to have been &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/2009\/10\/27\/three-sheets-to-the-wind\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Three sheets to the wind&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksreading-materials","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/worpal.com\/glennbrammell\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}