{"id":141,"date":"2014-04-30T12:32:11","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T02:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2016-11-21T12:33:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T01:33:02","slug":"the-difference-between-allusion-and-illusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/journal\/notes\/the-difference-between-allusion-and-illusion\/","title":{"rendered":"The difference between allusion and illusion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish the English language wouldn&#8217;t make two words look so similar when they don&#8217;t mean similar things! Then again, were that the case, I&#8217;d have nothing to do in a day!<\/p>\n<p>allusion (noun)\u2014a phrase or expression which calls something to attention without specifically mentioning it<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>\u2018This work of art is a clear allusion to Monet,\u2019 said the gallery curator.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>illusion (noun)\u2014a sensory experience that has been mistaken or misinterpreted<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  <em>\u2018I thought I saw a tree in the distance but it was just an illusion.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>The two school captains created the illusion of friendship, while, underneath, they really hated each other.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>  <em>He had no illusions that he would be leaving the hospital any time soon.<\/em>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I wish I could bend spoons, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There is no spoon.<\/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\/141"}],"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=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carmelsealey.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}