{"id":17638,"date":"2018-09-24T08:31:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T13:31:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=17638"},"modified":"2018-09-24T08:31:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T13:31:42","slug":"word-of-the-day-408","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/09\/24\/word-of-the-day-408\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Naif<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>noun<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a naive or inexperienced person<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>adjective<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>naive. <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/naif\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dictionary.com<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/outlook\/i-helped-write-a-speech-defending-a-vote-for-clarence-thomas-i-regret-it-still\/2018\/09\/21\/d60b3300-bcee-11e8-8792-78719177250f_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>I helped write a speech defending a vote for Clarence Thomas. I regret it still<\/em><\/a>,&#8221;\u00a0Stephen Rodrick, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I wasn\u2019t a complete naif; I\u2019d been farmed out to work on the promising congressional campaign of Mel Reynolds, a former Rhodes scholar, who lost a close race in Illinois\u2019 2nd District in 1990. I was briefly crushed. Then I watched Reynolds get elected two years later; not long afterward, he was convicted of multiple felonies including statutory rape and embezzlement.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naif: noun a naive or inexperienced person adjective naive. [Dictionary.com] Noted in &#8220;I helped write a speech defending a vote for Clarence Thomas. I regret it still,&#8221;\u00a0Stephen Rodrick, WaPo: I wasn\u2019t a complete naif; I\u2019d been farmed out to work on the promising congressional campaign of Mel Reynolds, a former \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/09\/24\/word-of-the-day-408\/\"> 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-17638","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\/17638","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=17638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17639,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17638\/revisions\/17639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}