{"id":28305,"date":"2020-04-09T20:59:32","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T01:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=28305"},"modified":"2020-04-09T20:59:32","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T01:59:32","slug":"word-of-the-day-553","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/04\/09\/word-of-the-day-553\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sycophancy:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sycophancy is defined as the overly fawning behavior of a suck-up.<br \/>\n<em>When a kid sits in the front row, answers every question and always brings the teacher an apple every day, this behavior is an example of sycophancy. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourdictionary.com\/sycophancy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Your Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/lifestyle\/media\/before-kayleigh-mcenany-sean-spicer-set-a-dismal-tone-for-trump-press-secretaries-its-been-downhill-ever-since\/2020\/04\/08\/795fd890-79a3-11ea-9bee-c5bf9d2e3288_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>New Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany could do the impossible: Make us miss Sean Spicer<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Margaret Sullivan, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By now, we\u2019ve come to accept that spin is part of the job description for White House press secretaries. It\u2019s a tactic and talent that has been on display in every modern presidential administration.<\/p>\n<p>But race-baiting? Dangerous bluster on topics of public health? Blatant sycophancy?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sycophancy: Sycophancy is defined as the overly fawning behavior of a suck-up. When a kid sits in the front row, answers every question and always brings the teacher an apple every day, this behavior is an example of sycophancy. [Your Dictionary] Noted in &#8220;New Trump press secretary Kayleigh McEnany could \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/04\/09\/word-of-the-day-553\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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-28305","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\/28305","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=28305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28306,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28305\/revisions\/28306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}