{"id":3658,"date":"2006-09-05T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T04:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/09\/05\/canvas.html"},"modified":"2006-09-05T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T04:03:08","slug":"canvas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/09\/05\/canvas\/","title":{"rendered":"canvas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It turns out that the word \"canvas\" derives ultimately from the Latin word \"cannabis\"; which, of course, means \"hemp.\"<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but apparently the word \"hemp\" itself may be distantly related to the Greek \"kannabis,\" which was the source of the Latin \"cannabis.\"<\/p>\n<p>(All this according to MW3; I first encountered the connection between \"canvas\" and \"cannabis\" in a <cite>New York Times<\/cite> article on attempts to legalize industrial hemp production.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that the word &#8220;canvas&#8221; derives ultimately from the Latin word &#8220;cannabis&#8221;; which, of course, means &#8220;hemp.&#8221; Not only that, but apparently the word &#8220;hemp&#8221; itself may be&#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-3658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658","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=3658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}