{"id":17930,"date":"2019-05-20T09:14:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T16:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17930"},"modified":"2019-05-20T09:14:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T16:14:59","slug":"head-of-household","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/05\/20\/head-of-household\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of household?"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I recently got voicemail spam in which caller asked to \u201cspeak to the head of household, if they\u2019re available.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>I was surprised to hear the phrase \u201chead of household\u201d\u2014I think I haven\u2019t encountered that phrase in years, outside of a tax context. (The IRS uses the phrase to refer to an unmarried person who maintains a home for themselves and dependents, which I\u2019m pretty sure was not what my spam caller had in mind.) So now I\u2019m curious: do you live in a household that includes someone you would consider to be the \u201chead of household,\u201d by whatever definition you personally have for that phrase?<\/p>\r\n<p>And if someone called you and asked to speak to the head of household, would you be at all surprised at the phrase?<\/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":[68],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-phrases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17930","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=17930"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17931,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17930\/revisions\/17931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}