{"id":1016,"date":"2008-05-28T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T13:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1016"},"modified":"2015-07-22T14:33:21","modified_gmt":"2015-07-22T18:33:21","slug":"world-wide-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2008\/05\/28\/world-wide-words\/","title":{"rendered":"World Wide Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Quinion, a speaker of British English, writes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/index.htm\">essays<\/a> about the origins of unusual words and slang. I followed a link to his site because I wanted to find out the approximate date of one of my favorite adjectives, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/weirdwords\/ww-cop1.htm\">copacetic.<\/a> Its age is indeterminate, but I did find many other fascinating tidbits on the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Quinion, a speaker of British English, writes essays about the origins of unusual words and slang. I followed a link to his site because I wanted to find out the approximate date of one of my favorite adjectives, copacetic. Its age is indeterminate, but I did find many other fascinating tidbits on the site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[639],"class_list":["post-1016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5905,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1016\/revisions\/5905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}