{"id":4683,"date":"2002-03-20T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2002-03-20T17:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/03\/20\/"},"modified":"2002-03-20T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2002-03-20T17:24:00","slug":"4683","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/03\/20\/4683\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>fond <\/b><br \/>\n<b>t adjective<\/b> [PREDIC.] (<b>fond of<\/b>) having an affection or liking for: I&#8217;m very fond of Mel | he was not too fond of dancing. <\/p>\n<p>n <i>[ATTRIB.]<\/i> affectionate; loving: I have very fond memories of Oxford.<br \/>\nn <i>[ATTRIB.]<\/i> (of a hope or belief) foolishly optimistic; naive.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014DERIVATIVES<br \/>\nfondly adverb<br \/>\nfondness noun.<br \/>\n\u2014<b>ORIGIN <\/b>late Middle English (in the sense &#8216;infatuated, foolish&#8217;): from obsolete fon &#8216;a fool, be foolish&#8217;, of unknown origin. Compare with FUN.<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Does your behaviour change when your talking to someone that you are fond of? Do you have a fond phrase, a greeting, a tone of voice etc?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>fond t adjective [PREDIC.] (fond of) having an affection or liking for: I&#8217;m very fond of Mel | he was not too fond of dancing. n [ATTRIB.] affectionate; loving: I have very fond memories of Oxford. n [ATTRIB.] (of a hope or belief) foolishly optimistic; naive. \u2014DERIVATIVES fondly adverb fondness noun. \u2014ORIGIN late Middle English &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2002\/03\/20\/4683\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}