{"id":3606,"date":"2022-09-06T14:48:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T21:48:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/?p=3606"},"modified":"2022-09-06T14:49:04","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T21:49:04","slug":"curiouser-and-curiouser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/index.php\/blog\/curiouser-and-curiouser\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiouser and Curiouser"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Curiouser-and-curiouser-Cried-Alice.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"512\" height=\"512\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Curiouser-and-curiouser-Cried-Alice.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Curiouser-and-curiouser-Cried-Alice.jpeg 512w, https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Curiouser-and-curiouser-Cried-Alice-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Curiouser-and-curiouser-Cried-Alice-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The phrase <strong><em>curiouser and curiouser<\/em><\/strong> means&nbsp;<strong>increasingly strange<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This phrase alludes to the following passage from <em>Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em> (London: Macmillan &amp; Co., 1865), by the English author <a href=\"https:\/\/wordhistories.net\/2017\/05\/20\/mad-as-a-hatter-origin\/\">Lewis Carroll<\/a> (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson \u2013 1832-1898):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color\"><em>\u201cCuriouser and curiouser!\u201d cried Alice (she was so much surprised, that for the moment she quite forgot how to speak good English); \u201cnow I\u2019m opening out like the largest telescope that ever was! Good-bye, feet!\u201d (for when she looked down at her <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/wordhistories.net\/2021\/04\/15\/two-left-feet\/\"><em>feet<\/em><\/a><em>, they seemed to be almost out of sight, they were getting so far off) \u201cOh, my poor little feet, I wonder who will put on your shoes and stockings for you now, dears? I\u2019m sure I shan\u2019t be able! I shall be a great deal too far off to trouble myself about you: you must manage the best way you can;\u2014but I must be kind to them,\u201d thought Alice, \u201cor perhaps they won\u2019t walk the way I want to go! Let me see: I\u2019ll give them a new pair of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/wordhistories.net\/2020\/07\/16\/mother-wears-army-boots\/\"><em>boots<\/em><\/a><em> every Christmas.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-link is-provider-word-histories wp-block-embed-word-histories\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/wordhistories.net\/2022\/02\/20\/curiouser-and-curiouser\/\">\u2018curiouser and curiouser\u2019: meaning and&nbsp;origin<\/a>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase curiouser and curiouser means\u00a0increasingly strange.<br \/>\nThis phrase alludes to the following passage from Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland (London: Macmillan &#038; Co., 1865), by the English author Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson \u2013 1832-1898):<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[49],"tags":[57,58,59],"class_list":["post-3606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-alice-in-wonderland","tag-curiousercuriouser","tag-lewis-carroll"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3609,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3606\/revisions\/3609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vanessagemayel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}