{"id":20821,"date":"2026-03-27T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T17:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20821"},"modified":"2026-03-01T14:46:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T21:46:32","slug":"words-seldom-seen-atavism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=20821","title":{"rendered":"Words Seldom Seen: Atavism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"820\" data-attachment-id=\"20822\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=20822\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5251-scaled.jpeg?fit=2184%2C2560&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"2184,2560\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.78&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 15 Pro Max&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1772301557&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6.7649998656528&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.00068587105624143&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_5251\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5251-scaled.jpeg?fit=700%2C820&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5251.jpeg?resize=700%2C820&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20822\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5251-scaled.jpeg?resize=874%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 874w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5251-scaled.jpeg?resize=256%2C300&amp;ssl=1 256w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5251-scaled.jpeg?resize=150%2C176&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5251-scaled.jpeg?resize=768%2C900&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5251-scaled.jpeg?resize=1311%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1311w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5251-scaled.jpeg?resize=1748%2C2048&amp;ssl=1 1748w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5251-scaled.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5251-scaled.jpeg?w=2100&amp;ssl=1 2100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Atavism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noun: Displaying old or archaic traits or behaviors<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Example: &#8220;His atavism was displayed by his insisting on reading the printed newspaper.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/atavism\">Pronunciation <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--nextpage-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Cactus Wren perched on top of a cactus near its nest. Cactus wrens can stand on cacti without being hurt because they don&#8217;t have nerves in their claws. Which isn&#8217;t that unusual, we don&#8217;t have nerves in our fingernails.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atavism Noun: Displaying old or archaic traits or behaviors Example: &#8220;His atavism was displayed by his insisting on reading the printed newspaper.&#8221; Pronunciation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20822,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","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":[408],"tags":[1562,72,719,409],"class_list":["post-20821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-words-seldom-seen","tag-atavism","tag-birds","tag-cacti","tag-words-seldom-seen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/IMG_5251-scaled.jpeg?fit=2184%2C2560&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-5pP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20821","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=20821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20823,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20821\/revisions\/20823"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}