{"id":14374,"date":"2018-02-22T08:31:48","date_gmt":"2018-02-22T14:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14374"},"modified":"2018-02-22T08:31:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T14:31:48","slug":"word-of-the-day-323","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/02\/22\/word-of-the-day-323\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scion<\/i>:<\/p>\n

a young member of a rich and famous family\u00a0[Cambridge Dictionary<\/a>]<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “Ethics Committee Acknowledges Investigation of John Duncan Jr<\/i><\/a>.”,\u00a0RollCall<\/b><\/i>:<\/p>\n

The House Ethics Committee acknowledged\u00a0Tuesday<\/span><\/span>\u00a0an investigation of\u00a0Rep.\u00a0John Duncan<\/a>\u00a0Jr, a scion of a Tennessee political dynasty who announced his retirement in July.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Duncan, a Republican, came under fire\u00a0that month\u00a0after\u00a0reports that his campaign paid\u00a0his son,\u00a0John Duncan III,\u00a0almost $300,000<\/a>. In the five years since the younger Duncan pleaded guilty to a felony charge of official misconduct. Those payments were made in monthly installments of $6,000 recorded as salary expenses, according to the Knoxville News Sentinel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Possibly not young enough to qualify for use of the term if he has a grown child? In fact, the “scion” has been in office since 1965, according to\u00a0RollCall<\/b><\/i>. He’s more of a patriarch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Scion: a young member of a rich and famous family\u00a0[Cambridge Dictionary] Noted in “Ethics Committee Acknowledges Investigation of John Duncan Jr.”,\u00a0RollCall: The House Ethics Committee acknowledged\u00a0Tuesday\u00a0an investigation of\u00a0Rep.\u00a0John Duncan\u00a0Jr, a scion of a Tennessee political dynasty who announced his retirement in July. Duncan, a Republican, came under fire\u00a0that month\u00a0after\u00a0reports that \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-14374","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\/14374","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=14374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14375,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14374\/revisions\/14375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}