{"id":17016,"date":"2018-08-11T10:05:28","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T15:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=17016"},"modified":"2018-08-11T10:05:28","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T15:05:28","slug":"word-of-the-day-393","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/08\/11\/word-of-the-day-393\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>milquetoast:<\/i><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Milquetoast<\/b>\u00a0is an insult popularised by H.T. Webster&#8217;s character,\u00a0<a title=\"Caspar Milquetoast\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Caspar_Milquetoast\">Caspar Milquetoast<\/a>, which was a deliberate misspelling of the dish\u00a0<a title=\"Milk toast\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milk_toast\">milk toast<\/a>. It refers to a person who has a meek or timid disposition. [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Milquetoast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/posteverything\/wp\/2018\/08\/07\/why-in-the-world-is-saudi-arabia-sanctioning-canada\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/posteverything\/wp\/2018\/08\/07\/why-in-the-world-is-saudi-arabia-sanctioning-canada\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1534086136329000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFxQglVXFhZemGXhBj2p8cN1xvxtg\"><i>Why in the world is Saudi Arabia sanctioning Canada?<\/i><\/a>&#8221; Daniel Drezner,\u00a0<i><b>WaPo<\/b><\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"gmail_quote\"><p>If this is an example of what Secretary of State Mike Pompeo meant when he said he wanted U.S. diplomats to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/may\/2\/trump-makes-first-visit-to-state-to-swear-in-pompe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2018\/may\/2\/trump-makes-first-visit-to-state-to-swear-in-pompe\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1534086136329000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGWDAKeFTk9omba7uPFBfMt0eatkA\">get their swagger back<\/a>, then he might be confusing \u201cswagger\u201d with \u201cmilquetoast.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>milquetoast: Milquetoast\u00a0is an insult popularised by H.T. Webster&#8217;s character,\u00a0Caspar Milquetoast, which was a deliberate misspelling of the dish\u00a0milk toast. It refers to a person who has a meek or timid disposition. [Wikipedia] From &#8220;Why in the world is Saudi Arabia sanctioning Canada?&#8221; Daniel Drezner,\u00a0WaPo: If this is an example of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/08\/11\/word-of-the-day-393\/\"> 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-17016","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\/17016","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=17016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17017,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17016\/revisions\/17017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}