{"id":30144,"date":"2020-08-15T10:36:57","date_gmt":"2020-08-15T15:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30144"},"modified":"2020-08-15T10:36:57","modified_gmt":"2020-08-15T15:36:57","slug":"word-of-the-day-596","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/08\/15\/word-of-the-day-596\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Satrap<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(in the past) someone who governed a province (= political area) in ancient Persia\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/satrap\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/08\/14\/world-war-ii-didnt-end-v-j-day-its-legacy-haunts-us-this-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Trump refuses to learn the lessons of World War II<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Max Boot, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Those were farsighted decisions, but the postwar order was also deeply flawed. The Red Army occupied Eastern Europe, turning the region into a Soviet satrapy for more than four decades. Joseph Stalin\u2019s troops also advanced into Manchuria, China\u2019s industrial heartland, helping speed Mao Zedong\u2019s victory in China\u2019s civil war.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Satrap: (in the past) someone who governed a province (= political area) in ancient Persia\u00a0[Cambridge Dictionary] Noted in &#8220;Trump refuses to learn the lessons of World War II,&#8221; Max Boot, WaPo: Those were farsighted decisions, but the postwar order was also deeply flawed. The Red Army occupied Eastern Europe, turning \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/08\/15\/word-of-the-day-596\/\"> 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-30144","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\/30144","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=30144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30145,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30144\/revisions\/30145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}