{"id":19042,"date":"2019-01-24T22:06:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T04:06:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=19042"},"modified":"2019-01-24T22:06:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T04:06:59","slug":"word-of-the-day-443","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/01\/24\/word-of-the-day-443\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Epigone<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A less distinguished follower or imitator of someone, especially an artist or philosopher.<br \/>\n\u2018<em>the humdrum compositions of some of Beethoven&#8217;s epigones<\/em>\u2019\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/epigone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Oxford Dictionaries<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/why-do-people-such-as-lindsey-graham-come-to-congress\/2019\/01\/23\/9830a174-1e68-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Why do people such as Lindsey Graham come to Congress?<\/em><\/a>&#8221; George F. Will, <strong><em>WaPo<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)], who is just 1 percent of one-half of one of the three branches of one of the nation\u2019s many governments, is, however, significant as a symptom. When the Trump presidency is just a fragrant memory, the political landscape will still be cluttered with some of this president\u2019s simple and empty epigones, the make-believe legislators who did not loudly and articulately recoil from the mere suggestion of using a declared emergency to set aside the separation of powers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Whatever you think of Will&#8217;s opinions, you gotta love his word choices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Epigone: A less distinguished follower or imitator of someone, especially an artist or philosopher. \u2018the humdrum compositions of some of Beethoven&#8217;s epigones\u2019\u00a0[Oxford Dictionaries] From &#8220;Why do people such as Lindsey Graham come to Congress?&#8221; George F. Will, WaPo: [Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC)], who is just 1 percent of one-half of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/01\/24\/word-of-the-day-443\/\"> 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-19042","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\/19042","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=19042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19043,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19042\/revisions\/19043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}