{"id":35418,"date":"2022-03-02T13:48:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-02T19:48:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=35418"},"modified":"2022-03-02T13:48:36","modified_gmt":"2022-03-02T19:48:36","slug":"word-of-the-day-774","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/03\/02\/word-of-the-day-774\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Codel<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>of congressional delegation, government-paid trips abroad, designed to give lawmakers first-hand knowledge of matters relevant to their legislation.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.definitions.net\/definition\/CODEL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Definitions.net<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/eight-republicans-spent-july-4-in-russia-where-are-the-fireworks\/2018\/07\/06\/beae30be-812e-11e8-b658-4f4d2a1aeef1_story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Eight Republicans pick the worst possible place to celebrate July 4<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Dana Milbank, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"font-copy font--article-body gray-darkest ma-0 pb-md\" data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">Yes, let us strive for camaraderie with a government that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-russia-sanctions-energygrid\/in-a-first-u-s-blames-russia-for-cyber-attacks-on-energy-grid-idUSKCN1GR2G3\">attacks us with cyberwarfare<\/a>, meddles in our elections,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/12\/29\/senators-scrap-russia-trip-after-kremlin-shahen-snub-319632\">denies entry to American officials who are critical of Moscow<\/a>, destabilizes Europe and the Middle East, kills critics at home and abroad, occupies its neighbors\u2019 land and shoots down the occasional passenger jet. Or, as Shelby put it, \u201cthis, that or so forth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One can hardly wait to see the lawmakers\u2019 next codel: meeting with wounded Taliban fighters on Veterans Day? A Memorial Day wreath-laying for fallen members of Saddam Hussein\u2019s Republican Guard? Flag Day at a street protest in Tehran?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Codel: of congressional delegation, government-paid trips abroad, designed to give lawmakers first-hand knowledge of matters relevant to their legislation.\u00a0[Definitions.net] Noted in &#8220;Eight Republicans pick the worst possible place to celebrate July 4,&#8221; Dana Milbank, WaPo: Yes, let us strive for camaraderie with a government that\u00a0attacks us with cyberwarfare, meddles in \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/03\/02\/word-of-the-day-774\/\"> 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-35418","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\/35418","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=35418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35419,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35418\/revisions\/35419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}