{"id":15373,"date":"2018-04-19T08:20:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-19T13:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=15373"},"modified":"2018-04-19T08:20:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-19T13:20:38","slug":"word-of-the-day-355","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/04\/19\/word-of-the-day-355\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Louche<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>questionable; shady; odd [America]<br \/>\nshifty or disreputable [English]<br \/>\n<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/us\/dictionary\/english\/louche\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Collins Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-admin\/post.php?post=15373&amp;action=edit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The cast goes ape in a stage adaptation of a Will Self novel<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; <span class=\"author\">Stewart Pringle, <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (7 April 2018):<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Self\u2019s work has always been a freewheeling mishmash of whimsy, bar-room philosophy and bum jokes, giving his work great energy and exuberance. There is also a less appealing note: a queasy \u201cappreciation\u201d of the louche excesses of London\u2019s arts scene. Marmion has nailed that perfectly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s a review of a play, of course. What it&#8217;s doing in <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> is less obvious. But I&#8217;d never seen the word <em>louche<\/em> before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louche: questionable; shady; odd [America] shifty or disreputable [English] [Collins Dictionary] Noted in &#8220;The cast goes ape in a stage adaptation of a Will Self novel,&#8221; Stewart Pringle, NewScientist (7 April 2018): Self\u2019s work has always been a freewheeling mishmash of whimsy, bar-room philosophy and bum jokes, giving his work \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/04\/19\/word-of-the-day-355\/\"> 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-15373","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\/15373","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=15373"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15375,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15373\/revisions\/15375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}