{"id":20422,"date":"2025-11-14T07:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20422"},"modified":"2025-11-08T12:43:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T19:43:39","slug":"words-seldom-seen-copacetic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20422","title":{"rendered":"Words Seldom Seen: Copacetic"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Copacetic<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adjective: In perfect order, very satisfactory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Example: “I was sure that the trip would be stressful but Rick assured me that everything was copacetic.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pronunciation <\/a> (click the speaker)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Can also be spelled Copasetic. The word showed up in English in the 20th century and its origin is disputed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

In the Hakone Museum<\/a> the autumn colors were just starting to change. On a clear day we could have seen Mt Fuji. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to Rick C. for giving me this WSS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Copacetic Adjective: In perfect order, very satisfactory. Example: “I was sure that the trip would be stressful but Rick assured me that everything was copacetic.” Pronunciation (click the speaker) Can also be spelled Copasetic. The word showed up in English in the 20th century and its origin is disputed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20415,"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":[19,228,408],"tags":[1523,1522,1497,409],"class_list":["post-20422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","category-trees","category-words-seldom-seen","tag-copacetic","tag-hakone","tag-japan","tag-words-seldom-seen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/IMG_4354.jpeg?fit=1500%2C1013&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5jo","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20422","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=20422"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20423,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20422\/revisions\/20423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}