{"id":33322,"date":"2021-06-17T21:07:32","date_gmt":"2021-06-18T02:07:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33322"},"modified":"2021-06-17T21:07:32","modified_gmt":"2021-06-18T02:07:32","slug":"word-of-the-day-696","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/06\/17\/word-of-the-day-696\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Athleisure<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a style of clothing that is comfortable and suitable for doing sports, but also fashionable and attractive enough to wear for other activities:<br \/>\n<em>The singer has her own athleisure brand of clothing. [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/athleisure\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Totally new to me. Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.refinery29.com\/en-us\/2021\/06\/10515566\/cult-language-cultish-amanda-montell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Why Does Everyone Talk Like They\u2019re In A Cult?<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Amanda Montell, <em><strong>Refinery29<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But New Age\u2013speak can also be a red flag. In some contexts, nebulous terms like \u201calignment\u201d and \u201cawakening\u201d serve as scammy marketing buzzwords that have no clear or specific meaning, but simply paint a portrait of the speaker as transcendently wise, like some kind of all-knowing wiseman or prophet (even if they themselves don\u2019t quite know what they\u2019re saying). In competitive workplace environments, for example, excessive New Age lingo \u2014 constant talk of \u201cmissional synergy\u201d and \u201cholistic idea-sharing\u201d \u2014 can promote a culture of conformity, discouraging individualism and questioning, while obscuring the fact that behind all the gobbledygook, the company\u2019s higher-ups might not have the most \u201cholistic\u201d intentions (a recent Bond University study found that one in five CEOs is a clinical psychopath). And on social media, where influencers are no longer selling just athleisure and eye cream, but also their very souls, dime-a-dozen Insta-gurus like @activationvibration offer free nuggets of spiritual-ese, hoping followers will get suckered into paying for their self-actualization courses or retreats in order to learn what the hell they\u2019re actually talking about.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps a trifle Germanic?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athleisure: a style of clothing that is comfortable and suitable for doing sports, but also fashionable and attractive enough to wear for other activities: The singer has her own athleisure brand of clothing. [Cambridge Dictionary] Totally new to me. Noted in &#8220;Why Does Everyone Talk Like They\u2019re In A Cult?,&#8221; \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/06\/17\/word-of-the-day-696\/\"> 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-33322","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\/33322","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=33322"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33323,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33322\/revisions\/33323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}