{"id":171,"date":"2011-04-29T23:00:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-29T23:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/?p=171"},"modified":"2011-05-15T06:06:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-15T06:06:40","slug":"insignificant-linguistic-mystery-painstakingly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/?p=171","title":{"rendered":"Insignificant Linguistic Mystery: Painstakingly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I have thought about and used this word, as in &#8216;painstakingly obvious&#8217; or &#8216;she described the incident in painstaking detail,&#8217; I break up the big morphemes as &#8216;pain and stakingly.&#8217; Then, yesterday, I pressed random word on wordnik.com often enough that I got to the page on the word <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordnik.com\/words\/painstaker\">painstaker<\/a>. The definition is &#8220;One who takes pains.&#8221; OF COURSE, said my brain, it is someone who takes pains to make sure every detail is in place. Pains taker, not pain staker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I have thought about and used this word, as in &#8216;painstakingly obvious&#8217; or &#8216;she described the incident in painstaking detail,&#8217; I break up the big morphemes as &#8216;pain and stakingly.&#8217; Then, yesterday, I pressed random word on wordnik.com often enough that I got to the page on the word painstaker. The definition is &#8220;One [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,402,253,138,109,51,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dictionaries","category-english","category-etymology","category-fact","category-insignificant-linguistics-mystery","category-wordnik","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tankhughes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}