{"id":6865,"date":"2014-05-19T19:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T01:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6865"},"modified":"2014-05-19T16:24:13","modified_gmt":"2014-05-19T22:24:13","slug":"two-no-three-words-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wotd\/two-no-three-words-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Two, no three, Words of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/wordoftheday\/archive\/2014\/05\/19.html?src=rss\">Word of the Day | Definition, Word Origins, and Quotes at Dictionary.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Word of the Day<\/h3>\n<p>Monday, May 19, 2014 <\/p>\n<h4>verbicide<\/h4>\n<p>\\ VUR-buh-sahyd \\&nbsp; , noun; <\/p>\n<p>1. the willful distortion or depreciation of the original meaning of a word. <\/p>\n<p>2. a person who willfully distorts the meaning of a word.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/wordoftheday\/archive\/2014\/05\/19.html?src=rss\">Word of the Day | Definition, Word Origins, and Quotes at Dictionary.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/wordoftheday\/archive\/2014\/05\/18.html?src=rss\">Word of the Day | Definition, Word Origins, and Quotes at Dictionary.com<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The shady side, or <em>ubac <\/em>, is usually rocky, steep and densely forested, whereas the sunny slope, or <strong>adret <\/strong>, is gentler and much more fertile.  <\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Pier Paolo Viazzo, <cite>Upland Communities: Environment, Population and Social Structure in the Alps Since the Sixteenth Century <\/cite>, 1989<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/wordoftheday\/archive\/2014\/05\/18.html?src=rss\">Word of the Day | Definition, Word Origins, and Quotes at Dictionary.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Word of the Day | Definition, Word Origins, and Quotes at Dictionary.com Word of the Day Monday, May 19, 2014 verbicide \\ VUR-buh-sahyd \\&nbsp; , noun; 1. the willful distortion or depreciation of the original meaning of a word. 2. a person who willfully distorts the meaning of a word. Word of the Day | &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wotd\/two-no-three-words-of-the-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two, no three, Words of the Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wotd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6865"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6866,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6865\/revisions\/6866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}