{"id":12814,"date":"2017-11-05T10:50:05","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T16:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=12814"},"modified":"2017-11-05T10:50:05","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T16:50:05","slug":"word-of-the-day-262","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/11\/05\/word-of-the-day-262\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

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  1. working hard and steadily; diligent<\/li>\n
  2. constant; persistent:\u00a0sedulous<\/em>\u00a0attention to the task<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    [YourDictionary.com<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Noted in “The Senate Just Confirmed an Anti-Gay Blogger to the Federal Judiciary<\/em><\/a>,” Mark Joseph Stern, Slate<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

    Thursday\u2019s confirmation vote provides a reminder of the Trump administration\u2019s vigorously\u00a0anti-LGBTQ stance. Trump himself may or may not hold animus toward sexual and gender minorities, but\u00a0his Cabinet<\/a>,\u00a0advisers<\/a>, and allies in Congress are working sedulously to reverse progress on LGBTQ rights. Once Trump stacks the federal courts with reactionary activists, his judges can\u00a0chip away at landmark rulings<\/a>\u00a0protecting marriage equality and\u00a0the broader rights<\/a>of same-sex couples. Neil Gorsuch,\u00a0Trump\u2019s Supreme Court justice<\/a>, has\u00a0already signaled his eagerness<\/a>\u00a0to reconsider gay rights. Judges like Bush can help to weaken gay-friendly precedent in the lower courts, making them more vulnerable to reversal.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    I must say, my reaction to the sound of this word is quite different from its meaning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Sedulous: working hard and steadily; diligent constant; persistent:\u00a0sedulous\u00a0attention to the task [YourDictionary.com] Noted in “The Senate Just Confirmed an Anti-Gay Blogger to the Federal Judiciary,” Mark Joseph Stern, Slate: Thursday\u2019s confirmation vote provides a reminder of the Trump administration\u2019s vigorously\u00a0anti-LGBTQ stance. Trump himself may or may not hold animus toward \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-12814","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\/12814","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=12814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12820,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12814\/revisions\/12820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}