{"id":103,"date":"2014-03-28T11:36:02","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T00:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/?p=103"},"modified":"2016-11-21T11:37:11","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T00:37:11","slug":"the-difference-between-council-and-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/journal\/notes\/the-difference-between-council-and-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between council and counsel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You have to love the English language for making itself hard to learn on purpose!<\/p>\n<p>council (noun)\u2014an advisory body of individuals, often elected by the public<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>The council will meet today to discuss the design plans for the new plaza.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>\u2018I was granted an interview with a member of the Jedi Council!\u2019<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>counsel (noun)\u2014advice given in a formal manner<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>Before he left on his journey, the King took counsel with his most trusted advisors.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>With wise counsel, you could gain a lot of money on Wall Street.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>counsel (verb)\u2014to give advice or professional help<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>The students were counselled on the importance of their upcoming exams.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>Due to the severity of the injury, the doctor counselled a period of extended rest.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yet another pair of words which sound exactly the same!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions\/104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}