{"id":3651,"date":"2010-10-06T10:30:51","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T09:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=3651"},"modified":"2010-10-06T10:30:51","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T09:30:51","slug":"casual-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=3651","title":{"rendered":"Casual water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>casual water<\/strong> &#8211; &#8220;a temporary accumulation of water on the golf course&#8221;. Technically the accumulation of water has to be above ground and visible, and this does not include lakes; wet, spongy, mushy or muddy ground; dew or frost, or snow or ice [<a href=\"http:\/\/golf.about.com\/cs\/golfterms\/g\/bldef_casualwat.htm\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>So in other words casual water is another way of describing a puddle, a diminutive of the Old English word <em>pudd<\/em> (ditch) which originally referred to pools and ponds as well [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?term=puddle\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>casual water &#8211; &#8220;a temporary accumulation of water on the golf course&#8221;. Technically the accumulation of water has to be above ground and visible, and this does not include lakes; wet, spongy, mushy or muddy ground; dew or frost, or snow or ice [source]. So in other words casual water is another way of describing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,107,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-etymology","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}