{"id":2132,"date":"2004-07-13T08:08:25","date_gmt":"2004-07-13T15:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2004\/07\/13\/2132.html"},"modified":"2004-07-13T08:08:25","modified_gmt":"2004-07-13T15:08:25","slug":"hopefully","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2004\/07\/13\/hopefully\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopefully"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It suddenly occurred to me just now that the grammatical-purist objection to \"hopefully\" (that it shouldn't be used to mean \"I hope\") applies equally well to the common use of words like \"actually.\"  I had a momentary thought that this might make a good column topic (no, I haven't forgotten about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/words\/\">the column<\/a>, despite appearances to the contrary), but it turns out someone's already done that, much better and more authoritatively than I could have.  Excellently as usual, Michael Quinion explains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/qa\/qa-hop2.htm\">the hopefully controversy<\/a>.  Turns out it's another fairly recent issue; apparently nobody really objected to <span class=\"word-as-word\">hopefully<\/span> and its ilk until the mid-1960s.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It suddenly occurred to me just now that the grammatical-purist objection to &#8220;hopefully&#8221; (that it shouldn&#8217;t be used to mean&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}