{"id":12699,"date":"2017-10-29T09:44:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-29T14:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=12699"},"modified":"2017-10-29T09:44:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-29T14:44:31","slug":"word-of-the-day-258","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/10\/29\/word-of-the-day-258\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bloviating<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Bloviation<\/b>\u00a0is a style of empty, pompous political speech particularly associated with\u00a0Ohio<\/a>\u00a0due to the term’s popularization by United States President\u00a0Warren G. Harding<\/a>, who, himself a master of the technique, described it as “the art of speaking for as long as the occasion warrants, and saying nothing”.[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0The verb “to bloviate” is the act of creating bloviation. In terms of its etymology, according to one source, the word is a “compound of blow, in its sense of ‘to boast’ (also in another typical Americanism,\u00a0blowhard<\/i>), with a mock-Latin<\/a>\u00a0ending to give it the self-important stature implicit in its meaning.” [Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “Trump increasingly frustrated his greatness isn’t being recognized<\/em><\/a>,” Kerry Eleveld, The Daily Kos<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

Apparently, that display of braggadocio went over so well, he reprised it again this week, which suggests we\u2019re likely to be treated to a lot more incoherent bloviating from the guy who really believes the world owes him a standing ovation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, the tone of Kerry’s post is awful, but I liked the word, and it’s particularly cool to see its connection with a previous President. It’s been one of those words I’d sort of taken for granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bloviating: Bloviation\u00a0is a style of empty, pompous political speech particularly associated with\u00a0Ohio\u00a0due to the term’s popularization by United States President\u00a0Warren G. Harding, who, himself a master of the technique, described it as “the art of speaking for as long as the occasion warrants, and saying nothing”.[1]\u00a0The verb “to bloviate” is \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-12699","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\/12699","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=12699"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12704,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12699\/revisions\/12704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}