{"id":914,"date":"2012-03-20T15:31:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T15:31:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=914"},"modified":"2012-03-20T15:31:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-20T15:31:52","slug":"wear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/?p=914","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wear&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word &#8220;wear&#8221; seems to be used for an increasingly wide range of things. We used to say of someone with a beard that they &#8220;had&#8221; a beard, now it seems increasingly common to talk about &#8220;wearing&#8221; a beard. This makes me think of those false beards that people use when they are pretending to be Santa Claus.<\/p>\n<p>Now, today, I&#8217;ve come across the notion of <a href=\"http:\/\/ask.metafilter.com\/210932\/The-only-handbag-Ill-ever-need\" title=\"Wearing a Handbag\">wearing a handbag,<\/a> (as part of my copious trawling the web for handbag-related webpages). This seems equally incongruous, bringing to mind it sitting around someone&#8217;s neck like a necklace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word &#8220;wear&#8221; seems to be used for an increasingly wide range of things. We used to say of someone with a beard that they &#8220;had&#8221; a beard, now it seems increasingly common to talk about &#8220;wearing&#8221; a beard. This makes me think of those false beards that people use when they are pretending to [&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\/914"}],"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=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colinjohnson.me.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}