{"id":17142,"date":"2018-08-21T08:09:05","date_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=17142"},"modified":"2018-08-21T08:09:05","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T13:09:05","slug":"word-of-the-day-397","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/08\/21\/word-of-the-day-397\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Vedette<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00a0<i><b>vedette<\/b><\/i>\u00a0is the main female artist of a show derived from\u00a0<a title=\"Cabaret\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cabaret\">cabaret<\/a>\u00a0and its genres (<a title=\"Revue\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Revue\">revue<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Vaudeville\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vaudeville\">vaudeville<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Music hall\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Music_hall\">music hall<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a title=\"Burlesque\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Burlesque\">burlesque<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>The purpose of the vedette in a cabaret or nightclub show is to entertain the public. The vedette has to know how to\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Triple threat (entertainer)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Triple_threat_(entertainer)\">sing, dance and act<\/a>\u00a0on stage.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vedette_(cabaret)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gypsy_Rose_Lee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em><\/a> entry for Gypsy Rose Lee:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Gypsy Rose Lee<\/b>\u00a0(born\u00a0<b>Rose Louise Hovick<\/b>, January 8, 1911 \u2013 April 26, 1970) was an\u00a0<a title=\"American burlesque\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_burlesque\">American burlesque<\/a>\u00a0entertainer and\u00a0<a title=\"Vedette (cabaret)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Vedette_(cabaret)\">vedette<\/a> famous for her\u00a0<a title=\"Striptease\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Striptease\">striptease<\/a>\u00a0act. Also an actress, author, and playwright,\u00a0<a title=\"Gypsy: A Memoir\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gypsy:_A_Memoir\">her 1957 memoir<\/a>\u00a0was adapted into the 1959 stage musical\u00a0<i><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Gypsy: A Musical Fable\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gypsy:_A_Musical_Fable\">Gypsy<\/a><\/i>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vedette: A\u00a0vedette\u00a0is the main female artist of a show derived from\u00a0cabaret\u00a0and its genres (revue,\u00a0vaudeville,\u00a0music hall\u00a0or\u00a0burlesque). The purpose of the vedette in a cabaret or nightclub show is to entertain the public. The vedette has to know how to\u00a0sing, dance and act\u00a0on stage.\u00a0[Wikipedia] Noted in the Wikipedia entry for Gypsy Rose \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/08\/21\/word-of-the-day-397\/\"> 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-17142","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\/17142","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=17142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17151,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17142\/revisions\/17151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}