{"id":15912,"date":"2018-05-27T10:13:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-27T15:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=15912"},"modified":"2018-05-27T10:13:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T15:13:53","slug":"word-of-the-day-369","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/05\/27\/word-of-the-day-369\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Clerisy<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[usually treated as plural] Learned or literary people regarded as a social group or class.<br \/>\n<em>\u2018the clerisy are those who read for pleasure\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n<p>[treated as singular]<em> \u2018he makes Coleridge&#8217;s ambitions for a clerisy exclusively conservative\u2019 [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/clerisy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Oxford English Dictionaries<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in\u00a0<em>\u201cProgressophobia: Why Things Are Better Than You Think They Are,\u201d <\/em>Steven Pinker,\u00a0<em><strong>Skeptical Inquirer<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(May \/ June 2018, print only):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Epithets aside, the idea that the world is better than it was and can get better still fell out of fashion among the clerisy long ago.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clerisy: [usually treated as plural] Learned or literary people regarded as a social group or class. \u2018the clerisy are those who read for pleasure\u2019 [treated as singular] \u2018he makes Coleridge&#8217;s ambitions for a clerisy exclusively conservative\u2019 [Oxford English Dictionaries] Noted in\u00a0\u201cProgressophobia: Why Things Are Better Than You Think They Are,\u201d \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/05\/27\/word-of-the-day-369\/\"> 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-15912","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\/15912","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=15912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15913,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15912\/revisions\/15913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}