{"id":33509,"date":"2021-06-30T19:53:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T00:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33509"},"modified":"2021-06-30T19:53:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T00:53:30","slug":"word-of-the-day-702","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/06\/30\/word-of-the-day-702\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>cri de coeur<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>An impassioned outcry, appeal, protest or entreaty. <em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/cri_de_coeur\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wiktionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/cathy.arcdigital.media\/p\/the-feminist-vs-the-cancelers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Feminist vs. The Cancelers<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Cathy Young, <em><strong>Arc Digital<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Chimamanda Ngozi] Adichie recently caused controversy with a long essay titled \u201cIt Is Obscene: A True Reflection in Three Parts.\u201d The piece is a cri de coeur against the self-righteous zealotry of current social justice politics, particularly online, and against what has come to be known as \u201ccancel culture.\u201d It is also a very personal story about being maligned by two fellow Nigerians, former students from her writing workshop, because of her disagreement with some aspects of the transgender rights movement. The former students, whom Adichie does not name but others have, are activist OluTimehin Adegbeye and activist\/writer Akwaeke Emezi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>cri de coeur: An impassioned outcry, appeal, protest or entreaty. [Wiktionary] Noted in &#8220;The Feminist vs. The Cancelers,&#8221; Cathy Young, Arc Digital: [Chimamanda Ngozi] Adichie recently caused controversy with a long essay titled \u201cIt Is Obscene: A True Reflection in Three Parts.\u201d The piece is a cri de coeur against \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/06\/30\/word-of-the-day-702\/\"> 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-33509","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\/33509","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=33509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33510,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33509\/revisions\/33510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}