{"id":10542,"date":"2017-07-26T07:52:58","date_gmt":"2017-07-26T12:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=10542"},"modified":"2017-07-26T07:52:58","modified_gmt":"2017-07-26T12:52:58","slug":"word-of-the-day-185","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/07\/26\/word-of-the-day-185\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ineluctable<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>not to be avoided, changed, or resisted\u00a0<span class=\"intro-colon\">:<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0<a class=\"sx-link sc\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/inevitable\">inevitable<\/a>\u00a0:\u00a0<em class=\"vi\">an\u00a0<em>ineluctable<\/em>\u00a0fate [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/ineluctable\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Merriam-Webster<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg23531340-900-why-help-a-torturer-come-to-terms-with-their-past\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a> in <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (15 July 2017, paywall) with\u00a0Fran\u00e7oise Sironi:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Helping both torturers and their victims didn\u2019t strike you as incompatible?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Not at all. By then I had realised that to understand one, you have to understand the other. For example, a torturer inflicting sexual abuse might say, \u201cYou\u2019ll never be a man again.\u201d To treat the person those words were directed at, you need an insight into\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22830471-200-torture-doesnt-work-says-science-why-are-we-still-doing-it\/\">the torturer\u2019s intentions<\/a>. But often the victim is too ashamed to repeat this. I was ineluctably drawn to become interested in torturers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I will have a bit more on this interview later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ineluctable: not to be avoided, changed, or resisted\u00a0:\u00a0\u00a0inevitable\u00a0:\u00a0an\u00a0ineluctable\u00a0fate [Merriam-Webster] Noted in an interview in NewScientist (15 July 2017, paywall) with\u00a0Fran\u00e7oise Sironi: Helping both torturers and their victims didn\u2019t strike you as incompatible? Not at all. By then I had realised that to understand one, you have to understand the other. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/07\/26\/word-of-the-day-185\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10542"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10552,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10542\/revisions\/10552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}