{"id":31735,"date":"2020-12-30T10:54:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T16:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=31735"},"modified":"2020-12-30T10:54:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T16:54:24","slug":"word-of-the-day-638","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/30\/word-of-the-day-638\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Suffragan<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Known for quoting the words \u201cHallelujah anyhow\u201d from a gospel song, Harris served as the suffragan, or assisting, bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts from 1989 until her retirement in 2002. She later was an assisting bishop in the Diocese of Washington.\u00a0<em>[&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/religionnews.com\/2020\/12\/29\/faith-and-cultural-influencers-who-died-in-2020\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Faith leaders and religion influencers who died in 2020<\/a>&#8220;, <strong>Religion News Service<\/strong>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Even more interestingly, <strong><em>RNS<\/em><\/strong> included James Randi in its list of ten noteworthy deaths.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The onetime magician and author was known for his investigation and disproving of faith healers. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/10\/21\/obituaries\/james-randi-dead.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>\u00a0that the skeptic, known as the \u201cAmazing Randi,\u201d moved from seeking to break the records of illusionist Houdini to exposing falsehoods. It noted he was inquisitive from an early age as a boy attending Sunday school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey started to read to me from the Bible,\u201d the newspaper said he recalled in 2016. \u201cAnd I interrupted and said: \u2018Excuse me, how do you know that\u2019s true? It sounds strange.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suffragan: Known for quoting the words \u201cHallelujah anyhow\u201d from a gospel song, Harris served as the suffragan, or assisting, bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts from 1989 until her retirement in 2002. She later was an assisting bishop in the Diocese of Washington.\u00a0[&#8220;Faith leaders and religion influencers who died \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2020\/12\/30\/word-of-the-day-638\/\"> 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-31735","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\/31735","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=31735"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31735\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31736,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31735\/revisions\/31736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}