{"id":1707,"date":"2007-07-05T08:04:56","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T15:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1707"},"modified":"2007-07-05T08:04:56","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T15:04:56","slug":"todays-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/1707","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>taffy<\/strong> \u00c3\u201a\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2<em> noun<\/em> (pl. taffies) [mass noun]<br \/>\n1. N. Amer. a sweet similar to toffee, made from brown sugar or treacle, boiled with butter and pulled until glossy.<br \/>\n2. US informal insincere flattery.<br \/>\n\u00c3\u201a\u00e2\u20ac\u201d origin early 19th cent.: earlier form of toffee, ultimate origin unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Mind you, I grew up reading books set in England, so it&#8217;s not like the word is unfamiliar to me, but I have always found the word treacle to be completely unappetizing. My brain processes it as something oily and sticky&#8211;something that you might use to caulk the seams of an old ship. As in, &#8220;Cap&#8217;n! Thar&#8217;s a leak on th&#8217; port side&#8211;th&#8217; bos&#8217;un&#8217;s applying treacle to seal &#8216;er off!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>taffy \u00c3\u201a\u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 noun (pl. taffies) [mass noun] 1. N. Amer. a sweet similar to toffee, made from brown sugar or treacle, boiled with butter and pulled until glossy. 2. US informal insincere flattery. \u00c3\u201a\u00e2\u20ac\u201d origin early 19th cent.: earlier form of toffee, ultimate origin unknown. Mind you, I grew up reading books set in England, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-rx","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}