{"id":10600,"date":"2019-12-19T07:22:33","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T12:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=10600"},"modified":"2019-12-19T07:22:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T12:22:43","slug":"ducks-in-a-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/ducks-in-a-row\/","title":{"rendered":"ducks in a row"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"693\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191219-ducks-in-a-row-1024x693.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191219-ducks-in-a-row-1024x693.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191219-ducks-in-a-row-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191219-ducks-in-a-row-768x520.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191219-ducks-in-a-row.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>\u201cto have one\u2019s ducks in a row\u201d is an idiom meaning to have all one\u2019s preparations done or arranged before beginning an activity or project, and the phrase is thought to have arisen by allusion to a mother duck leading her ducklings in an orderly single file. In my original column I noted that the phrase was first attested in print in 1979, but it has since been found in a Washington Post article from 1932.&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.word-detective.com\/2007\/07\/ducks-in-a-row-part-2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Word Detective (opens in a new tab)\">Word Detective<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"684\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191219-town-creek-ducks-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191219-town-creek-ducks-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191219-town-creek-ducks-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191219-town-creek-ducks-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/191219-town-creek-ducks.jpg 1028w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><figcaption>One of my sister&#8217;s favorite phrases.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[17,28,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fauna","category-riverine","category-slabtown"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10603,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10600\/revisions\/10603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}