{"id":21330,"date":"2019-02-06T08:40:14","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=21330"},"modified":"2019-02-06T08:40:14","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T14:40:14","slug":"word-of-the-day-446","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/02\/06\/word-of-the-day-446\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hustings<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00a0<b>husting<\/b>\u00a0originally referred to a native\u00a0<a title=\"Germanic peoples\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Germanic_peoples\">Germanic<\/a>\u00a0governing assembly, the\u00a0<a title=\"Thing (assembly)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thing_(assembly)\">thing<\/a>. By\u00a0<a title=\"Metonymy\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Metonymy\">metonymy<\/a>, the term may now refer to any event, such as debates or speeches, during an election campaign where one or more of the representative candidates are present. The term is used synonymously with\u00a0<a title=\"Stump speech (politics)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stump_speech_(politics)\">stump<\/a>\u00a0in the United States.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Husting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2019\/02\/01\/introducing-post-pundit-power-ranking-round\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>This is the best person to beat Trump. And the 14 next-best.<\/em><\/a>&#8221; <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Few of the potential contenders have been tested on the hustings or a national debate stage; nor have they shown us their organizing or fundraising chops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A bit repetitive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hustings: A\u00a0husting\u00a0originally referred to a native\u00a0Germanic\u00a0governing assembly, the\u00a0thing. By\u00a0metonymy, the term may now refer to any event, such as debates or speeches, during an election campaign where one or more of the representative candidates are present. The term is used synonymously with\u00a0stump\u00a0in the United States.\u00a0[Wikipedia] Noted in &#8220;This is the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/02\/06\/word-of-the-day-446\/\"> 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-21330","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\/21330","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=21330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21346,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21330\/revisions\/21346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}