{"id":1256,"date":"2009-11-25T05:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-25T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1256"},"modified":"2009-11-25T05:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-25T05:16:00","slug":"j-k-rowlings-effect-on-our-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=1256","title":{"rendered":"J.K. Rowlings’ Effect on Our Language"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently M. and I started to experiment with geocaching<\/a>. Since our rural home is adjacent to national forest land and located just off a designated Scenic Byway, it is a fertile spot<\/a>\u2014there must be a dozen or more caches within five miles.<\/p>\n

But what I noticed when reading geocaching sites and forums is that a particular term is used for people who are out and about but who themselves are not geocachers. It is important that the caches themselves be concealed from these people.<\/p>\n

The term used for such people, of course, begins with “m.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Recently M. and I started to experiment with geocaching. Since our rural home is adjacent to national forest land and located just off a designated Scenic Byway, it is a fertile spot\u2014there must be a dozen or more caches within five miles. But what I noticed when reading geocaching sites and forums is that a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[22],"class_list":["post-1256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-weirdness"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-kg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11408,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=11408","url_meta":{"origin":1256,"position":0},"title":"Geocaching for Weirdness & Other Psychogeography","author":"Chas S. 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