{"id":36974,"date":"2022-08-14T15:50:48","date_gmt":"2022-08-14T20:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=36974"},"modified":"2022-08-14T15:50:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-14T20:50:48","slug":"word-of-the-day-819","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/08\/14\/word-of-the-day-819\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Bupkis<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Bupkis is a Yiddish word, which is literally translated as \u201cbeans\u201d and is derived from a Slavic word for \u201cgoat droppings.\u201d Apparently goat droppings look like beans, although I\u2019ve never actually seen any goat droppings.<\/p>\n<p>However just to make things confusing, it\u2019s not used as a reference to something edible (beans), or something inedible (goat droppings), but as something worthless (a bean isn\u2019t worth much, and goat droppings even less)\u00a0<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bupkis.org\/index.php\/what-is-bupkis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bupkis.org<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/davidlat.substack.com\/p\/my-latest-theory-about-the-scotus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Latest Theory About The SCOTUS Leaker<\/a><\/em>,&#8221; David Lat, <em><strong>Original Jurisdiction<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Who knows? Not me. Like my prior post,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/davidlat.substack.com\/p\/what-the-scotus-leaker-might-say\" rel=\"\">What The SCOTUS Leaker Might Say For Themselves<\/a>, this post is completely speculative and based on no inside information. You could torture\u00a0<em>me<\/em>\u00a0if you wanted, and you\u2019d get bupkis. And yes, this post is also somewhat embellished, maybe even over-the-top\u2014but remember that I\u2019m also a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/SupremeAmbitions\" rel=\"\">fiction writer<\/a>, and I\u2019m working on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/davidlat.substack.com\/p\/judicial-notice-070922-a-most-taxing\" rel=\"\">a novel based on the events of this Term<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bupkis: Bupkis is a Yiddish word, which is literally translated as \u201cbeans\u201d and is derived from a Slavic word for \u201cgoat droppings.\u201d Apparently goat droppings look like beans, although I\u2019ve never actually seen any goat droppings. However just to make things confusing, it\u2019s not used as a reference to something \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/08\/14\/word-of-the-day-819\/\"> 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-36974","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\/36974","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=36974"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36975,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36974\/revisions\/36975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}