{"id":33947,"date":"2021-08-09T21:20:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T02:20:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=33947"},"modified":"2021-08-09T21:20:45","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T02:20:45","slug":"word-of-the-day-717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/08\/09\/word-of-the-day-717\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Animus<\/em>:<\/p>\n

a feeling of hate or anger toward someone or something:
\nHe harbors no animus toward his rival. [Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “Republicans aren\u2019t conservatives. They\u2019re nihilists<\/em><\/a>,” Max Boot, WaPo<\/em><\/strong>:<\/p>\n

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Of course, a mask mandate wouldn\u2019t be necessary if more people were vaccinated. A large part of the reason they\u2019re not is the right\u2019s bizarre anti-vaccine animus. Religious-right commentator Eric Metaxas sounded very much like a 1960s radical when\u00a0he explained<\/a> why people shouldn\u2019t get vaccinated: \u201cIf the government or everybody is telling you you have to do something … if only to be a rebel, you need to say, \u2018I\u2019m not going to do this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That may also qualify as Typo of the Day, <\/em>actually. Hatred of anti-vaccine is hardly the style of the irrational right these days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Animus: a feeling of hate or anger toward someone or something: He harbors no animus toward his rival. [Cambridge Dictionary] Noted in “Republicans aren\u2019t conservatives. They\u2019re nihilists,” Max Boot, WaPo: Of course, a mask mandate wouldn\u2019t be necessary if more people were vaccinated. A large part of the reason they\u2019re \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-33947","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\/33947","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=33947"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33948,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33947\/revisions\/33948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}