{"id":3319,"date":"2012-04-02T10:37:19","date_gmt":"2012-04-02T00:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2012-03-25T12:42:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-25T01:42:06","slug":"console-foreign-dignitaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2012\/04\/console-foreign-dignitaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Console foreign dignitaries&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another pair of words that could lead to embarrassment if used in the wrong way&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>consul:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0[noun] a State agent in a foreign place, usually to represent the state in that foreign place<br \/>\n<em>\u00a0I contacted the Australian Consul about voting when I was in Europe last year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>console:<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0[verb] comfort and make someone feel better; [noun] control panel or switchboard of electrical equipment; [noun] cabinet or frame supporting equipment such as a TV or stereo<br \/>\n<em>Family and friends gathered around the widow in an attempt to console her.<br \/>\nThe sound technician <a title=\"Pause to check the meaning\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2012\/03\/pause-to-check-the-meaning\/\">pored<\/a>\u00a0over the console to find the error and restore sound.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another pair of words that could lead to embarrassment if used in the wrong way&#8230; consul:\u00a0[noun] a State agent in a foreign place, usually to represent the state in that foreign place \u00a0I contacted the Australian Consul about voting when I was in Europe last year. console:\u00a0[verb] comfort and make someone feel better; [noun] control [&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":[1418,1417,1421,119],"class_list":["post-3319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-console","tag-consul","tag-foreign","tag-meaning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319","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=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3755,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions\/3755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}