{"id":31109,"date":"2020-11-05T16:15:58","date_gmt":"2020-11-05T22:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31109"},"modified":"2020-11-05T16:15:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T22:15:58","slug":"word-of-the-day-622","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/11\/05\/word-of-the-day-622\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rapporteur<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A\u00a0<b>rapporteur<\/b>\u00a0is a person who is appointed by an organization to report on the proceedings of its meetings. The term is a French-derived word.<\/p>\n<p>For example,\u00a0<a title=\"Dick Marty\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dick_Marty\">Dick Marty<\/a>\u00a0was appointed\u00a0<i>rapporteur<\/i>\u00a0by the\u00a0<a title=\"Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Parliamentary_Assembly_of_the_Council_of_Europe\">Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe<\/a>\u00a0to investigate\u00a0<a title=\"Extraordinary rendition\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Extraordinary_rendition\">extraordinary rendition<\/a>\u00a0by the\u00a0<a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"CIA\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CIA\">CIA<\/a>.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rapporteur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The example seems vaguely at odds with the definition.<\/p>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/centerforinquiry.org\/blog\/the-progeny-of-a-fecund-racket\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>The Progeny Of A Fecund Racket<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Paul Fidalgo, <em><strong>The Morning Heresy<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ahmed Shaheed, the UN\u2019s Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief, called upon world governments to\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/religion-maldives-freedom-of-religion-discrimination-north-korea-16c8581a5a00b5d4f0887e803e8c40dc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201crepeal all laws that undermine the exercise of the human rights to freedom of religion or belief,\u201d<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0warning about \u201ctrajectories of violence and even atrocity crimes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rapporteur: A\u00a0rapporteur\u00a0is a person who is appointed by an organization to report on the proceedings of its meetings. The term is a French-derived word. For example,\u00a0Dick Marty\u00a0was appointed\u00a0rapporteur\u00a0by the\u00a0Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe\u00a0to investigate\u00a0extraordinary rendition\u00a0by the\u00a0CIA. [Wikipedia] The example seems vaguely at odds with the definition. Noted in \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/11\/05\/word-of-the-day-622\/\"> 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-31109","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\/31109","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=31109"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31110,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31109\/revisions\/31110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}