{"id":4524,"date":"2021-11-11T08:42:55","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T08:42:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=4524"},"modified":"2021-11-11T08:42:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T08:42:55","slug":"just-passing-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/?p=4524","title":{"rendered":"Just passing by"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Thought I had better put in an appearance before poor old BTW expired out of loneliness.  Things have been busy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Random dictionary delve &#8211; <em>sombrero<\/em> is Spanish for any hat, but the word has been  &#8211; borrowed? misused? &#8211; to mean the wide brimmed one.   Similarly, <em>avon<\/em> is assumed to mean river, in ancient languages current around the British Isles when the various invaders\/town planners showed up, hence the superfluity of such named water courses.   And, of course, the hidden irony of the tautology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My dad loved word play and entymology, and <em>superfluity<\/em> would have got his day off to a good start.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thought I had better put in an appearance before poor old BTW expired out of loneliness. Things have been busy. Random dictionary delve &#8211; sombrero is Spanish for any hat, but the word has been &#8211; borrowed? misused? &#8211; to mean the wide brimmed one. Similarly, avon is assumed to mean river, in ancient languages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kirsty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/banthewasp.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}