{"id":1665,"date":"2009-05-07T00:29:34","date_gmt":"2009-05-07T08:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2009-05-07T00:31:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-07T08:31:01","slug":"peotic-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/?p=1665","title":{"rendered":"Peotic License"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=peosis+|+peotic\">Various people on the <abbr title=\"World-Wide\">WW<\/abbr>Web have used the word <q>peosis<\/q> or <q>peotic<\/q>.<\/a>  In all the cases that I have examined, these uses appear to be typographical errors, with the intended word being <q>poesis<\/q> or <q>poetic<\/q>.<\/p><p><abbr title=\"for what it's worth\" style=\"font-size: smaller ;\">FWIW<\/abbr>, the word <q style=\"font-style: italic ;\">\u03c0\u1f73\u03bf\u03c2<\/q> is Greek for <span style=\"font-style: italic ;\">membrum virile<\/span>.  Thus, for example, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=%22wax+peotic%22\"><q>wax peotic<\/q><\/a> would be equivalent to <q>wax penile<\/q>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Various people on the WWWeb have used the word peosis or peotic. In all the cases that I have examined, these uses appear to be typographical errors, with the intended word being poesis or poetic.FWIW, the word \u03c0\u1f73\u03bf\u03c2 is Greek for membrum virile. Thus, for example, wax peotic would be equivalent to wax penile.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,117,4],"tags":[334],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-communication","category-public","tag-everyday-absurdity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oeconomist.com\/blogs\/daniel\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}