{"id":3056,"date":"2008-09-28T09:21:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-28T13:21:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2008-09-28T09:21:30","modified_gmt":"2008-09-28T13:21:30","slug":"words-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/3056","title":{"rendered":"Words of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/oaf\">oaf<\/a><\/strong>   \\OHF\\   <em>noun<\/em><br \/>\n    1 : a stupid person : boob<br \/>\n   *2 : a big clumsy slow-witted person<\/p>\n<p>Oaf is almost as good word as trollop.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"anathema\">anathema<\/a><\/strong>   \\uh-NATH-uh-muh\\   <em>noun<\/em><br \/>\n    1 a : one that is cursed by ecclesiastical authority *b: someone or something intensely disliked or loathed<br \/>\n    2 a : a ban or curse solemnly pronounced by ecclesiastical authority and accompanied by excommunication b : a vigorous denunciation : curse<\/p>\n<p>My favorite use of the word anathema was in Robert B. Parker&#8217;s &#8220;Small Vices&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Since my name was anathema at Pemberton, I had to employ guile. I called the alumni office and said my name was Anathema and I was with the IRS.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>oaf \\OHF\\ noun 1 : a stupid person : boob *2 : a big clumsy slow-witted person Oaf is almost as good word as trollop. anathema \\uh-NATH-uh-muh\\ noun 1 a : one that is cursed by ecclesiastical authority *b: someone or something intensely disliked or loathed 2 a : a ban or curse solemnly pronounced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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}},"categories":[2],"tags":[166],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-reading","tag-anathema"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-Ni","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056","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=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}