{"id":38037,"date":"2022-12-27T10:29:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-27T16:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38037"},"modified":"2022-12-27T10:29:17","modified_gmt":"2022-12-27T16:29:17","slug":"word-of-the-day-850","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/27\/word-of-the-day-850\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Lissome<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3 class=\"source\">from The American Heritage\u00ae Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><abbr title=\"partOfSpeech\">adjective<\/abbr>\u00a0Moving or able to move with grace and ease; lithe and graceful.<\/li>\n<li><abbr title=\"partOfSpeech\">adjective<\/abbr>\u00a0Easily bent; supple.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>&#8230; [<strong>Wordnik<\/strong>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d seen it before, but was uncertain as to its exact meaning. Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/history\/2022\/12\/26\/solving-cains-jawbone-murder-mystery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A 1934 murder mystery\u2019s pages were printed out of order. Now the world is obsessed.<\/em><\/a>&#8221; Hannah Natanson, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"teaser-content grid-center\">\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\" data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">The lissome little murder mystery\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/unbound.com\/books\/cains-jawbone-paperback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retails for $15<\/a> and totals 100 pages. The novel\u2019s cover, depicting a murdered man\u2019s legs on a library floor, is an enticing blend of turquoise, bright yellow and pale orange. The book was written in 1934 by a British crossword master, and \u201cthe pages have been printed in an entirely haphazard order,\u201d the book jacket\u2019s cover declares, \u201cbut it is possible \u2014 through logic and intelligent reading \u2014 to sort them into the only correct order, revealing six murder victims and their respective murderers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-qa=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">This &#8220;British crossword master&#8221; is &#8220;the father of the cryptic crossword.&#8221; Further reading suggests the dude&#8217;s brain looked, metaphorically, like one of M. C. Escher&#8217;s nightmares.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lissome: from The American Heritage\u00ae Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition. adjective\u00a0Moving or able to move with grace and ease; lithe and graceful. adjective\u00a0Easily bent; supple. &#8230; [Wordnik] I&#8217;d seen it before, but was uncertain as to its exact meaning. Noted in &#8220;A 1934 murder mystery\u2019s pages were printed \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/27\/word-of-the-day-850\/\"> 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-38037","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\/38037","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=38037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38038,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38037\/revisions\/38038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}