{"id":10817,"date":"2008-01-01T09:50:18","date_gmt":"2008-01-01T17:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2008\/01\/01\/janitor.html"},"modified":"2008-01-01T09:50:18","modified_gmt":"2008-01-01T17:50:18","slug":"janitor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2008\/01\/01\/janitor\/","title":{"rendered":"janitor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Everyone knows that \"January\" derives from the name of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Janus_%28mythology%29\">Janus<\/a>, the Roman god of doors and beginnings and endings. But what I didn't know until a couple weeks ago is that the word <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?janitor\">janitor<\/a> also derives from that name; a janitor was originally a doorkeeper.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everyone knows that &#8220;January&#8221; derives from the name of Janus, the Roman god of doors and beginnings and endings. But what I didn&#8217;t know until a couple weeks ago is&#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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}