{"id":663,"date":"2005-03-09T14:45:13","date_gmt":"2005-03-09T21:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/663"},"modified":"2005-03-09T14:45:13","modified_gmt":"2005-03-09T21:45:13","slug":"todays-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/663","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have any need for this word, but a friend&#8217;s older relative used the term, and we wanted to know what it meant.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/wotd\/index.pperl?date=19990111\">grass widow<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The usual current sense of grass widow is &#8216;a woman who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from her husband&#8217;. The other sense found in current use is &#8216;a married woman whose husband is frequently apart from her for short periods of time, as on business or to pursue a hobby&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Historically, there are two senses that are now archaic, obsolete, or dialectal: &#8216;an abandoned mistress&#8217; and &#8216;a woman who has borne an illegitimate child&#8217;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More on the etymology at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randomhouse.com\/wotd\/index.pperl?date=19990111\">Mavens&#8217; Word of the Day website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have any need for this word, but a friend&#8217;s older relative used the term, and we wanted to know what it meant. grass widow The usual current sense of grass widow is &#8216;a woman who is separated, divorced, or lives apart from her husband&#8217;. The other sense found in current use is &#8216;a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[],"class_list":["post-663","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-aH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663","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=663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}