{"id":311,"date":"2015-10-10T10:31:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-10T17:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/srmcreative.com\/runblog\/?p=311"},"modified":"2019-12-20T22:38:02","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T22:38:02","slug":"chafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/2015\/10\/10\/chafe\/","title":{"rendered":"Chafe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sorry, I just feel like I&#8217;ve been seeing this <em>a lot<\/em> lately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The word you&#8217;re looking for, my friends, is &#8220;chafe.&#8221; One &#8220;f,&#8221; not two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is just a public service announcement because I see it spelled wrong so often. If you say &#8220;chaff,&#8221; you are (unintentionally) talking about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chaff\">the husks and shells of grains that get discarded when they are being processed for human consumption<\/a>, or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chaff_(countermeasure)\">the anti-missile countermeasures that aircraft employ to avoid being blown up<\/a>. &#8220;Chaffing&#8221; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/chaffing\">teasing or mocking<\/a>, or maybe <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chaffing_and_winnowing\">something about cryptography and encryption that I don&#8217;t really understand<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chafe. Not chaff. Chafing, not chaffing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Banner image by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/conifer\/15639415221\">coniferconifer<\/a>, used under the <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">Creative Commons license<\/a>. This use does not constitute any endorsement by the photographer&nbsp;of the contents of this post.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry, I just feel like I&#8217;ve been seeing this a lot lately. The word you&#8217;re looking for, my friends, is &#8220;chafe.&#8221; One &#8220;f,&#8221; not two. This is just a public service announcement because I see it spelled wrong so often. If you say &#8220;chaff,&#8221; you are (unintentionally) talking about the husks and shells of grains&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/2015\/10\/10\/chafe\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chafe<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-miscellany","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/azventurer.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}