{"id":5115,"date":"2009-07-18T11:44:43","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T15:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/?p=5115"},"modified":"2009-07-18T11:44:43","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T15:44:43","slug":"a-useful-typo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/2009\/07\/a-useful-typo\/","title":{"rendered":"A Useful Typo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;just now encountered, although I myself can&#8217;t use it this exact moment. Permission granted to do with as you will. Definition supplied free of charge:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>fumor<\/strong> (fyoo&#8217;-mor), <em>n.<\/em> A rotten mood; a silent stewing of one&#8217;s psyche in frustrating but unalterable circumstances. E.g., <em>Dealing with the idiots in her bridge club always put Madge in a fumor, but what could she do? They were her friends<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong>fumorous<\/strong> (fyoo&#8217;-mor-us), <em>adj.<\/em> Tending to induce or having already induced a fumor. E.g., <em>Ack! The line to get a book signed by the famous author formed a fumorous, two-block serpent stretching down the rainy street<\/em>.<br \/>\n<strong>fumor, fumored, fumoring<\/strong>, <em>v.t.<\/em> To regard a frustrating situation balefully, often wishing the most ill of wills upon the persons or other entities which have put one here. E.g., <em>With his fully pregnant bride enduring contractions in the back seat of his car, Jerry could do little but fumor the officious traffic cop. The sonofabitch was standing in a pile of excrement left by a passing farm animal, but Jerry was damned if he&#8217;d share the information<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Also feel free to localize the spelling as appropriate: <em>fumour<\/em>, etc.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;just now encountered, although I myself can&#8217;t use it this exact moment. Permission granted to do with as you will. Definition supplied free of charge: fumor (fyoo&#8217;-mor), n. A rotten mood; a silent stewing of one&#8217;s psyche in frustrating but unalterable circumstances. E.g., Dealing with the idiots in her bridge club always put Madge in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","h5ap_radio_sources":[],"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,713],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-language-writing_cat","7":"category-humor-writing_cat","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6kZSG-1kv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5118,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5115\/revisions\/5118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnesimpson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}