{"id":1682,"date":"2009-08-09T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-09T20:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1682"},"modified":"2015-08-28T11:26:30","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T15:26:30","slug":"fuss-about-pus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2009\/08\/09\/fuss-about-pus\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuss about pus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Quiz: What comes out of a suppurating wound? More precisely, how do you spell it?<strong><u><em><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\"><\/p>\n<p>PUS.<\/span><\/em><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>P-U-S.<\/p>\n<p>Not P-U-S-S.<\/p>\n<p>Two Ses mean a cat, while one S means <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pus\">purulent liquid <\/a>indicated an infected wound. [It&#8217;s also that white gunk inside zits.] Stop confusing them, people. <\/p>\n<p>And for God&#8217;s sakes, don&#8217;t <em>ever<\/em> think that the adjectival form is &quot;pussy,&quot; because that gets us into even more disgusting confusions. Acceptable adjectives meaning &quot;full of pus&quot; include suppurative, pyogenic and purulent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quiz: What comes out of a suppurating wound? More precisely, how do you spell it? PUS. P-U-S. Not P-U-S-S. Two Ses mean a cat, while one S means purulent liquid indicated an infected wound. [It&#8217;s also that white gunk inside zits.] Stop confusing them, people. And for God&#8217;s sakes, don&#8217;t ever think that the adjectival&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2009\/08\/09\/fuss-about-pus\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Fuss about pus<\/span><\/a><\/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-1682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682","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=1682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6177,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1682\/revisions\/6177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}