{"id":29305,"date":"2020-07-02T12:29:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T17:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=29305"},"modified":"2020-07-02T12:29:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T17:29:38","slug":"word-of-the-day-574","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/07\/02\/word-of-the-day-574\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cloture<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the closing or limitation of debate in a legislative body especially by calling for a vote\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/cloture\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Merriam-Webster<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/ignoring-irony-mcconnell-warns-dems-may-vandalize-senate-n1232793\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Ignoring irony, McConnell warns Dems may &#8216;vandalize&#8217; the Senate<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Steve Benen, <em><strong>Maddowblog<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cloture-Graph.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-29306\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cloture-Graph.jpg?resize=800%2C523&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cloture-Graph.jpg?w=835&amp;ssl=1 835w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cloture-Graph.jpg?resize=300%2C196&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cloture-Graph.jpg?resize=768%2C502&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cloture-Graph.jpg?resize=229%2C150&amp;ssl=1 229w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Cloture-Graph.jpg?resize=150%2C98&amp;ssl=1 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I presume &#8220;cloture invoked&#8221; means the vote passed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cloture: the closing or limitation of debate in a legislative body especially by calling for a vote\u00a0[Merriam-Webster] Noted in &#8220;Ignoring irony, McConnell warns Dems may &#8216;vandalize&#8217; the Senate,&#8221; Steve Benen, Maddowblog: I presume &#8220;cloture invoked&#8221; means the vote passed.<\/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-29305","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\/29305","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=29305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29307,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29305\/revisions\/29307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}