{"id":16420,"date":"2018-01-18T19:50:24","date_gmt":"2018-01-19T03:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=16420"},"modified":"2018-01-15T19:08:28","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T03:08:28","slug":"cynosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/01\/18\/cynosure\/","title":{"rendered":"cynosure"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I knew that a cynosure was a center of attention (I\u2019ve almost always seen it in the phrase \u201cthe cynosure of all eyes\u201d), and I knew that it was the name of a <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cynosure_(comics)\">city<\/a> in the comic book series <cite>Grimjack<\/cite>.<\/p>\r\n<p>But I hadn\u2019t known that it\u2019s also a name for Ursa Minor or for the north star, according to my dictionary.<\/p>\r\n<p>(At least I hadn\u2019t known that \u2019til 2010, when I wrote a note to myself to post this. But I had forgotten it in the meantime. I suppose I ought to do a better job of really learning all these new-to-me words that I post, so that when I see them again years later they won\u2019t again seem to be new.)<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420","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=16420"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16779,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16420\/revisions\/16779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}