{"id":63,"date":"2003-12-31T22:17:21","date_gmt":"2004-01-01T03:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/?p=63"},"modified":"2003-12-31T22:17:21","modified_gmt":"2004-01-01T03:17:21","slug":"terminology-and-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/2003\/12\/terminology-and-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Terminology and usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spending New Year&#8217;s Eve as I usually do, laid out on my mother&#8217;s living room floor eating snacks and watching about six hours worth of movies, just enough to carry us through to that final ten minutes of Dick Clark&#8217;s show and the ball drop in Times Square (some day I swear that man will age decades before our very eyes), the thought occurs to me: does anyone actually put gloves in a glove compartment any more?<\/p>\n<p>Very useful little space when we were all motoring around in the Model-T, which was mostly open to the elements; not so useful now that you can just heave stuff over your shoulder into the back seat (quick snapshot of what&#8217;s in my backseat: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>one mitten (the other is in the trunk&#8230;don&#8217;t ask),<\/li>\n<li>cassette tape case (hey, the car&#8217;s 13 years old; no in-dash CD player for me),<\/li>\n<li>an empty Dr. Pepper can, <\/li>\n<li>and the rock used to break the window the last time someone tried to steal the car (I inherited this from the guy I bought the car from)).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What&#8217;s in my glove compartment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Small flash light<\/li>\n<li>tire pressure guage<\/li>\n<li>registration and insurance papers<\/li>\n<li>cheap pair of sunglasses<\/li>\n<li>and a pair of rubber gloves (really don&#8217;t ask)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, if the actual use of something has evolved beyond its name, why does its name persist?<\/p>\n<p>Random thoughts from during my viewing of <span class=\"pubtitle\">The Recruit<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spending New Year&#8217;s Eve as I usually do, laid out on my mother&#8217;s living room floor eating snacks and watching about six hours worth of movies, just enough to carry us through to that final ten minutes of Dick Clark&#8217;s show and the ball drop in Times Square (some day I swear that man will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-63","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-thoughts","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homemaderavioli.com\/woodstock\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}