{"id":26655,"date":"2020-08-06T07:57:20","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T12:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=26655"},"modified":"2020-08-06T07:57:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T12:57:20","slug":"homophones-not-that-theres-anything-wrong-with-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/06\/homophones-not-that-theres-anything-wrong-with-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Homophones, Not That There&#8217;s Anything Wrong With That"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while back (five years ago?), my youngest son&#8217;s class collected as many homophones as they could, so my son took a lot of pleasure running through his vocabulary and ours to discover ones that his classmates had not.<\/p>\n<p>However, I was remiss at that time in not including <em>tocsin<\/em>, an alarm bell, and <em>toxin<\/em>, a poison generally of plant or animal origin.<\/p>\n<p>You would think I would have been better prepared for that pairing as a reader of suspense novels, but Alistair MacLean novels are more full of <em>klaxons<\/em> of the <em>alarums<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>(The word <em>tocsin<\/em> brought to the forefront of my mind via this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookwormroom.com\/2020\/08\/05\/trump-2020-make-america-normal-again\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bookworm Room post<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back (five years ago?), my youngest son&#8217;s class collected as many homophones as they could, so my son took a lot of pleasure running through his vocabulary and ours to discover ones that his classmates had not. However, I was remiss at that time in not including tocsin, an alarm bell, and toxin, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26655"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26657,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26655\/revisions\/26657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}