{"id":869,"date":"2006-12-01T14:47:24","date_gmt":"2006-12-01T14:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/01\/ask-mr-language-person\/"},"modified":"2006-12-01T14:47:24","modified_gmt":"2006-12-01T14:47:24","slug":"ask-mr-language-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2006\/12\/01\/ask-mr-language-person\/","title":{"rendered":"Ask Mr. Language Person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stolen from a discussion on an email list, a small usage question:<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s the difference between a &#8220;fiasco&#8221; and a &#8220;debacle&#8221;? Is there a difference, or are they perfect synonyms?<\/p>\n<p>My thoughts below the fold.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Personally, I&#8217;m with the person on the listserver who said that &#8220;there should be a touch of<br \/>\ncomedy to a fiasco, and a touch of tragedy in a debacle,&#8221; but I&#8217;m interested to hear what other people think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stolen from a discussion on an email list, a small usage question: What&#8217;s the difference between a &#8220;fiasco&#8221; and a &#8220;debacle&#8221;? Is there a difference, or are they perfect synonyms? My thoughts below the fold.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-silliness","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/869\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}