{"id":19963,"date":"2025-06-20T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-20T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=19963"},"modified":"2025-05-14T11:20:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T18:20:01","slug":"words-seldom-seen-discombobulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=19963","title":{"rendered":"Words Seldom Seen: Discombobulate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Discombobulate<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verb: disconcert or confuse someone, usually humorous. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Example: “Finding the “irregular link” trail totally discombobulated the hikers.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pronunciation: Discombobulate<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This word has been around for about 200 years and its origin is disputed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The trails in the Phoenix Mountain Preserve are not well marked. For example the VOAZ trail doesn’t start or end at a trailhead. And the irregular trail links the Piestewa Peak trails with the Dreamy Draw trails but not apparently in a regular way. There are not enough signs pointing to the trailheads. On the other hand I can walk to the preserve and hike all day. Life is good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Discombobulate Verb: disconcert or confuse someone, usually humorous. Example: “Finding the “irregular link” trail totally discombobulated the hikers.” Pronunciation: Discombobulate This word has been around for about 200 years and its origin is disputed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,408],"tags":[1465,229,409],"class_list":["post-19963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mt-whitney","category-words-seldom-seen","tag-discombobulate","tag-hiking","tag-words-seldom-seen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/IMG_3202.jpeg?fit=1125%2C1500&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5bZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19964,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19963\/revisions\/19964"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}