{"id":25474,"date":"2019-08-01T08:55:39","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T13:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=25474"},"modified":"2019-08-01T08:55:39","modified_gmt":"2019-08-01T13:55:39","slug":"word-of-the-day-491","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/08\/01\/word-of-the-day-491\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Countenance:<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>noun<\/strong><br \/>\nthe appearance or expression of someone\u2019s face:<br \/>\n<em>Her countenance masked her feelings.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>verb<\/strong><br \/>\nto find an activity acceptable; to approve of or give support to something:<br \/>\n<em>This school will not countenance lateness.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/countenance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/national-security\/the-quiet-director-how-gina-haspel-manages-the-cias-volatile-relationship-with-trump\/2019\/07\/30\/c54cae04-9920-11e9-830a-21b9b36b64ad_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The quiet director: How Gina Haspel manages the CIA\u2019s volatile relationship with Trump<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Shane Harris, <strong><em>WaPo<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In 2017, then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer cited Fox News pundit Andrew Napolitano\u2019s claim that three intelligence sources had told him the Obama administration used Britain\u2019s electronic eavesdropping agency, the Government Communications Headquarters, to spy on Trump and avoid \u201cAmerican fingerprints.\u201d GCHQ took the extraordinary step of issuing a public statement, saying the claims were \u201cutterly ridiculous and should be ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The British intended to put the White House on notice that they would not countenance such accusations, but Trump has repeated them, most recently in April, a few days after the president\u2019s state visit to Britain was announced.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countenance: noun the appearance or expression of someone\u2019s face: Her countenance masked her feelings. verb to find an activity acceptable; to approve of or give support to something: This school will not countenance lateness. [Cambridge Dictionary] Noted in &#8220;The quiet director: How Gina Haspel manages the CIA\u2019s volatile relationship with \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2019\/08\/01\/word-of-the-day-491\/\"> 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-25474","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\/25474","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=25474"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25474\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25475,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25474\/revisions\/25475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25474"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25474"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25474"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}