{"id":330,"date":"2008-05-26T10:20:49","date_gmt":"2008-05-26T00:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=330"},"modified":"2008-05-23T13:03:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T03:03:00","slug":"a-principled-principal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/05\/a-principled-principal\/","title":{"rendered":"A principled principal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another pair of words that I frequently see misused is principle and principal&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Principle &#8211; a belief or moral that governs behaviour and decisions; a fundamental truth<br \/>\n<em>On principle, John refused to watch the parade.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Principal &#8211; first or leading rank (e.g. a School Principal); initial sum of money before interest and fees<br \/>\n<em>As Principal of the local school, Mary was well respected by the parents.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The most common uses of these words are often confused and used incorrectly. The easiest way to remember which is which is to think of your <em>pal <\/em>being a princi<em>pal<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another pair of words that I frequently see misused is principle and principal&#8230; Principle &#8211; a belief or moral that governs behaviour and decisions; a fundamental truth On principle, John refused to watch the parade. Principal &#8211; first or leading rank (e.g. a School Principal); initial sum of money before interest and fees As Principal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[278,288,273,287,290,286,285,289,120,284,201],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-definitions","tag-ehics","tag-meanings","tag-moral","tag-pal","tag-principal","tag-principle","tag-school","tag-spelling","tag-tip","tag-words"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}