{"id":20131,"date":"2025-08-08T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20131"},"modified":"2025-07-16T08:48:01","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T15:48:01","slug":"words-seldom-seen-benighted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20131","title":{"rendered":"Words Seldom Seen: Benighted"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Benighted<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adjective: Existing in a state of moral or intellectual darkness, Unenlightened usually because of lack of opportunity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Example: “The benighted natives were using stone age tools.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pronounciation here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo is of me mailing some postcards in Curacao. Below are photos of the postbox at the Airport and the stained glass window in the main Post Office which also serves as a place to send money and pay taxes.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The photos are from our dive trip to Curacao at the end of June. Yes the photo shows me with a paunch. This is a review item.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Benighted Adjective: Existing in a state of moral or intellectual darkness, Unenlightened usually because of lack of opportunity. Example: “The benighted natives were using stone age tools.” Pronounciation here Photo is of me mailing some postcards in Curacao. Below are photos of the postbox at the Airport and the stained glass window in the main […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20094,"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":[12,19,408],"tags":[1485,137,409],"class_list":["post-20131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-codger-divers","category-travel","category-words-seldom-seen","tag-benighted","tag-postcards","tag-words-seldom-seen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/IMG_3676.jpeg?fit=1500%2C2000&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5eH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131","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=20131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20132,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20131\/revisions\/20132"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}