{"id":6859,"date":"2023-03-07T12:01:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-07T05:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/?post_type=vocab&#038;p=6859"},"modified":"2023-03-07T12:01:42","modified_gmt":"2023-03-07T05:01:42","slug":"metaphor","status":"publish","type":"vocab","link":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/vocab\/metaphor\/","title":{"rendered":"Metaphor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A metaphor mirrors one\u2019s understanding of this world (e.g. the \u201cthe world is but a stage\u201d statement). As it contains the unique perspective of the utterer(s), we can use it as a window to look into the human landscape of thoughts and emotions. Take, for example, the comparison between COVID-19 response and war. This expression implies the innate hostility of the virus and the necessity of threat neutralisation measures. It is crucial to know what kind of imagination policy metaphors convey, and the risks\/consequences that such policy frameworks might entail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A figure of speech that compares one thing to something else in order to render the subject of discussion more relatable or more easily digestible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6856,"template":"","categories":[],"tags":[242],"topic":[],"class_list":["post-6859","vocab","type-vocab","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-policy-vocabulary-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vocab\/6859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vocab"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/vocab"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6859"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thailandpolicylab.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}