{"id":577,"date":"2011-08-31T22:06:11","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T22:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=577"},"modified":"2011-08-31T22:06:11","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T22:06:11","slug":"circumspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=577","title":{"rendered":"Circumspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just realised that I&#8217;ve been misunderstanding the word &#8220;circumspect&#8221; all of my life. I had always assumed that it meant looking at something briefly or superficially, but looking it up after seeing it in a context where that doesn&#8217;t work, I realise that it means more-or-less the opposite: looking carefully at all aspects of a situation. This illustrates a danger with trying to understand words from their etymology\u2014I had assumed that it meant &#8220;looking just around the edge of something&#8221; like the use of &#8220;circum&#8221; in &#8220;circumference&#8221;, not &#8220;looking at something from all aspects&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just realised that I&#8217;ve been misunderstanding the word &#8220;circumspect&#8221; all of my life. I had always assumed that it meant looking at something briefly or superficially, but looking it up after seeing it in a context where that doesn&#8217;t work, I realise that it means more-or-less the opposite: looking carefully at all aspects of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":578,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/577\/revisions\/578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}