{"id":6357,"date":"2014-01-13T10:42:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T23:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=6357"},"modified":"2014-07-08T09:10:19","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T23:10:19","slug":"a-hansom-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2014\/01\/a-hansom-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"A hansom boy?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As always, I help <a title=\"Love Santa personalised letters\" href=\"http:\/\/www.lovesanta.com.au\" target=\"_blank\">Love Santa<\/a> write and edit some special letters each December.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6383\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HansomCab.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6383\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6383\" src=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HansomCab-300x182.gif\" alt=\"A picture of hansom cab being pulled by a moving horse\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HansomCab-300x182.gif 300w, https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/HansomCab-150x91.gif 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A 19th century engraving of a Hansom Cab in motion. Hansom cabs were designed to be faster and more agile than older horse drawn carriages.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>As I edit, I check the supplied information works in the letters, <a title=\"Capital letters\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2008\/04\/capital-letters-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">fix up capital letters<\/a> and adjust any spelling errors.<\/p>\n<p>In one letter I edited a few weeks ago, I came across a misspelling I&#8217;ve never seen before so it has inspired today&#8217;s <a title=\"Monday Meanings - definitions of similar words\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/category\/monday-meanings\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monday meanings<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">handsome <span style=\"color: #000000;\">[adjective]: attractive, good looking; significant<\/span><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">You are such a handsome boy!<br \/>\nHe received a handsome package when he retired.<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">hansom <span style=\"color: #000000;\">[noun]: a horse drawn\u00a0 two-wheeled carriage\u00a0with a covered area which the driver sat behind and above.\u00a0The hansom cab (named for its design) was the forerunner of the term taxicab and cab that we now associated with hired vehicles.)<\/span><br \/>\n<em><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Sherlock Holmes jumped aboard the hansom cab and was off!<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>How to remember which is which?<\/h2>\n<p>A hansom cab was designed to be sleek and fast so it has fewer letters than the significant handsome.<\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, you may find it easier to think of a handsome person having a hand which a hansom cab certainly does not!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As always, I help Love Santa write and edit some special letters each December. As I edit, I check the supplied information works in the letters, fix up capital letters and adjust any spelling errors. In one letter I edited a few weeks ago, I came across a misspelling I&#8217;ve never seen before so it [&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":[1686,297,1684,1685,1687],"class_list":["post-6357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-cab","tag-definition","tag-handsome","tag-hansom","tag-looks"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357","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=6357"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6501,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6357\/revisions\/6501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}