{"id":978,"date":"2003-03-16T13:26:25","date_gmt":"2003-03-16T21:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2003\/03\/16\/978.html"},"modified":"2003-03-16T13:26:25","modified_gmt":"2003-03-16T21:26:25","slug":"words-easily-confused-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2003\/03\/16\/words-easily-confused-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Words easily confused #6"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Only one item this time, but it's a remarkably common one:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"word-as-word\">lightning<\/span> and <span class=\"word-as-word\">lightening.<\/span> I suppose this should really go in the category of \"words easily misspelled,\" because nobody honestly confuses the two words; it's just that a huge number of people spell <span class=\"word-as-word\">lightning<\/span> with an extra <span class=\"word-as-word\">e<\/span> in the middle, and because <span class=\"word-as-word\">lightening<\/span> is a real word, computer spellcheckers don't flag it.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only one item this time, but it&#8217;s a remarkably common one: lightning and lightening. I suppose this should really go&#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":[12,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-words-easily-confused"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978","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=978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/978\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}