{"id":395,"date":"2008-04-09T05:33:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-09T09:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2008-04-09T05:33:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-09T09:33:31","slug":"a-distinctive-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=395","title":{"rendered":"A distinctive programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I maintain in my own usage a distinction between &#8220;program&#8221; and &#8220;programme&#8221;. This doesn&#8217;t depend on whether I am writing to Americans or not. The distinction is between two referents (I nearly wrote &#8220;things&#8221;, but neither are tangible). A <em>program<\/em> is a set of precise instructions for a computer. Useful word; useful thing. A <em>programme<\/em> is either a much vaguer set of plans and aspirations for a human being or an organisation &#8212; what most people nowadays call as strategy &#8212; or it is something made for the radio. It occurs to me that it can also be the listing for an evening&#8217;s entertainment. Either way, it needs to end in me.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I maintain in my own usage a distinction between &#8220;program&#8221; and &#8220;programme&#8221;. This doesn&#8217;t depend on whether I am writing to Americans or not. The distinction is between two referents (I nearly wrote &#8220;things&#8221;, but neither are tangible). A program &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=395\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=395\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}