{"id":30889,"date":"2020-10-15T19:46:36","date_gmt":"2020-10-16T00:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=30889"},"modified":"2020-10-15T19:46:36","modified_gmt":"2020-10-16T00:46:36","slug":"word-of-the-day-612","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/15\/word-of-the-day-612\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Legatee<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>one to whom a legacy is bequeathed or a devise is given <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/legatee\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Merriam-Webster<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Devise?<\/p>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2020\/10\/15\/rudy-giuliani-was-once-our-churchill-now-he-acts-like-shady-watergate-goon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Rudy Giuliani was once compared to Churchill. Now he acts like a shady Watergate goon<\/em><\/a>.&#8221; Karen Tumulty, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But getting to the truth was never really the point for Segretti\u2019s legatee Rudy Giuliani. He seems to have made a bet that getting this stuff into the water would be enough. Maybe an attack on Biden\u2019s family could even trigger a Muskie-like reaction from the candidate, even though the polls indicate Biden is currently on track to beat an incumbent president, possibly by a big margin. The question now is whether Americans are any smarter at spotting what election interference looks like than they were in 2016.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Frankly, yes, I think a substantial portion of the electorate has wised up. Donald Segretti, mentioned above, was Nixon&#8217;s dirty tricks operative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legatee: one to whom a legacy is bequeathed or a devise is given [Merriam-Webster] Devise? Noted in &#8220;Rudy Giuliani was once compared to Churchill. Now he acts like a shady Watergate goon.&#8221; Karen Tumulty, WaPo: But getting to the truth was never really the point for Segretti\u2019s legatee Rudy Giuliani. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/10\/15\/word-of-the-day-612\/\"> 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-30889","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\/30889","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=30889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30890,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30889\/revisions\/30890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}