{"id":454,"date":"2002-05-22T17:17:37","date_gmt":"2002-05-23T00:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2002\/05\/22\/454.html"},"modified":"2002-05-22T17:17:37","modified_gmt":"2002-05-23T00:17:37","slug":"words-i-learned-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2002\/05\/22\/words-i-learned-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Words I learned today"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>floruit: a period during which something flourishes.<\/p>\n<p>kennel: a gutter.<\/p>\n<p>Reading enhances vocabulary!  Even so, I don't normally happen across two new words a day, especially while reading fiction.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many times I've read a reference to a kennel that I assumed was talking about a dog kennel, not knowing this other meaning.  It comes from a totally different root than the dog-related meaning, so this is another item to add to my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/logos\/words\/lower\/h.html\">homomorphs list<\/a> if I ever get around to updating that again.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>floruit: a period during which something flourishes. kennel: a gutter. Reading enhances vocabulary! Even so, I don&#8217;t normally happen across&#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-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","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=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}