{"id":3519,"date":"2008-11-21T08:20:49","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T13:20:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=3519"},"modified":"2008-11-21T08:20:49","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T13:20:49","slug":"todays-word-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/3519","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It my <em>personal<\/em> guiding word:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/non-sequitur\"><strong>non sequitur<\/strong><\/a>   \\NAHN-SEK-wuh-ter\\   <em>noun<\/em><br \/>\n    1 : an inference that does not follow from the premises<br \/>\n   *2 : a statement (as a response) that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said<\/p>\n<p>Did you know?<br \/>\n    In Latin, &#8220;non sequitur&#8221; means &#8220;it does not follow.&#8221; The phrase was borrowed into English in the 1500s by people who made a formal study of logic. For them it meant a conclusion that does not follow from the statements that lead to it. But we now use &#8220;non sequitur&#8221; for any kind of statement that seems to come out of the blue. The Latin verb &#8220;sequi&#8221; (&#8220;to follow&#8221;) has actually led the way for a number of English words. A &#8220;sequel&#8221; follows the original novel, film, or television show. Someone &#8220;obsequious&#8221; follows another about, flattering and fawning. And an action is often followed by its &#8220;consequence.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It my personal guiding word: non sequitur \\NAHN-SEK-wuh-ter\\ noun 1 : an inference that does not follow from the premises *2 : a statement (as a response) that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said Did you know? In Latin, &#8220;non sequitur&#8221; means &#8220;it does not follow.&#8221; The [&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":[6],"tags":[256],"class_list":["post-3519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-sequiturs","tag-word-of-the-day"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-UL","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519","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=3519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}