{"id":2220,"date":"2005-08-23T14:19:25","date_gmt":"2005-08-23T18:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2220"},"modified":"2005-08-23T14:19:25","modified_gmt":"2005-08-23T18:19:25","slug":"windfarm-or-wind-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/23\/windfarm-or-wind-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"windfarm or wind farm?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So how do you write it?<\/p>\n<p>I use the former. Some people might say that the latter is more correct (one doesn&#8217;t refer to a pigfarm, after all), but we&#8217;re not really farming wind here. That we leave to the bean farmers (<em>hohoho<\/em>; I do believe that was the very same joke that Lord McAlpine used to use when showing bigwigs through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.res-ltd.com\/\">RES Ltd<\/a> office in Hemel Hempstead).<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d really prefer to use the term <em>windpark<\/em>, using the original meaning of park for an enclosed field. I guess it&#8217;s a bit European for most folks here, so it&#8217;s windfarm for me.<\/p>\n<p>(One shouldn&#8217;t confuse a windfarm with <a href=\"http:\/\/resoft.co.uk\/\">WindFarm<\/a>, the toolbox of choice for the leet wind haxx0r).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So how do you write it? I use the former. Some people might say that the latter is more correct (one doesn&#8217;t refer to a pigfarm, after all), but we&#8217;re not really farming wind here. That we leave to the bean farmers (hohoho; I do believe that was the very same joke that Lord McAlpine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[744,1113,1360,221,199,1060,1269,217,59],"class_list":["post-2220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goatee-stroking-musing-or-something","category-wind-things","tag-folk","tag-ice","tag-joke","tag-office","tag-peo","tag-pig","tag-ugh","tag-uk","tag-wind"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-zO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}