{"id":195,"date":"2006-02-13T21:14:25","date_gmt":"2006-02-13T10:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/02\/13\/conflated\/"},"modified":"2006-02-18T15:05:21","modified_gmt":"2006-02-18T04:05:21","slug":"conflated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/2006\/02\/13\/conflated\/","title":{"rendered":"Conflated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have noticed my latest favourite word is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=conflating\">conflating<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Oh no!&#8221; I hear myself exclaim, &#8220;You are <em>conflating<\/em> two completely separate concepts.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Trouble is, I am using it where I would normally use the simpler, clearer verb &#8220;confusing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>So not only am I confusing people with &#8220;conflating&#8221; but I am conflating &#8220;confusing&#8221; and &#8220;conflating&#8221; in a confusing way.<\/p>\n<p>No, wait&#8230; perhaps I mean &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=confounding\">confounding<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have noticed my latest favourite word is &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=conflating\">conflating<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23,35,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-based-on-a-true-story","category-heroic-failures","category-observation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somethinkodd.com\/oddthinking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}