{"id":15915,"date":"2008-11-17T15:10:02","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T20:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=15915"},"modified":"2014-10-05T17:35:34","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T21:35:34","slug":"we-are-not-bemused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/11\/17\/we-are-not-bemused\/","title":{"rendered":"We are not bemused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/bostonglobe\/ideas\/articles\/2008\/11\/16\/we_are_not_bemused\/\" target=\"_blank\">Reporter Jan Freeman writes about the difference between &#8220;amused&#8221; and &#8220;bemused&#8221; in <i>The Boston Globe<\/i><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Merrill Perlman, who writes the Language Corner column for the <i>Columbia Journalism Review<\/i>, posted an entry on bemused several weeks ago, objecting to the sentence &#8220;Obama shrugged off McCain&#8217;s attacks with a bemused smile.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If the last six months of Nexis citations are any guide,&#8221; she wrote, &#8220;more than half the people reading this think, as the above writers did, that &#8216;bemused&#8217; means something like &#8216;amused.&#8217; But it doesn&#8217;t.&#8221; Perlman, formerly director of copy desks at the <i>Times<\/i>, believes that &#8220;unless Obama was &#8216;confused,&#8217; or &#8216;muddled,&#8217; or &#8216;puzzled,&#8217; he was not &#8216;bemused.'&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reporter Jan Freeman writes about the difference between &#8220;amused&#8221; and &#8220;bemused&#8221; in The Boston Globe: Merrill Perlman, who writes the Language Corner column for the Columbia Journalism Review, posted an entry on bemused several weeks ago, objecting to the sentence &#8220;Obama shrugged off McCain&#8217;s attacks with a bemused smile.&#8221; &#8220;If the last six months of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15915"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15916,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15915\/revisions\/15916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}