{"id":1000,"date":"2006-03-04T16:57:19","date_gmt":"2006-03-04T20:57:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1000"},"modified":"2006-03-04T16:57:57","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T20:57:57","slug":"to-mesmerize-ized-izing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1000","title":{"rendered":"to mesmerize, -ized, -izing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>to mesmerize, &#8211; ized, -izing<\/u><\/strong><br \/><em>v<\/em> <strong>1.<\/strong> To be in a deep daydream, or specifically, <strong>2.<\/strong> To overthink the past events that may (or may not) have had a profound effect on one&#8217;s personal experiences or beliefs.<br \/>\nex &#8211; <em>Ms. Moneypenny was mesmerizing about mr. Bond.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Origin<\/em>: The actual meaning of the word is described as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webster.com\/cgi-bin\/dictionary?sourceid=Mozilla-search&#038;va=mesmerize\">&#8216;to hypnotize&#8217;<\/a>, or the &#8216;state of being under a heavy spell&#8217;. I&#8217;m pretty sure, I&#8217;ve always used &#8216;mesmerizing&#8217; in the context as explained above. In a way, I truly think mesmerizing should mean what is described under &#8216;2&#8217;, above. Maybe this may happen in another 20 years.<\/p>\n<p><small><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?s=mesmerizing\">Earlier mentioned on xsamplex.<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>to mesmerize, &#8211; ized, -izingv 1. To be in a deep daydream, or specifically, 2. To overthink the past events that may (or may not) have had a profound effect on one&#8217;s personal experiences or beliefs. ex &#8211; Ms. Moneypenny &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1000\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}