{"id":38459,"date":"2023-03-12T15:51:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T20:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38459"},"modified":"2023-03-12T15:51:03","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T20:51:03","slug":"word-of-the-day-873","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/03\/12\/word-of-the-day-873\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pillory<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The\u00a0<b>pillory<\/b>\u00a0is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used for\u00a0<a title=\"Punishment\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Punishment\">punishment<\/a>\u00a0by\u00a0<a title=\"Public humiliation\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Public_humiliation\">public humiliation<\/a>\u00a0and often further physical abuse.\u00a0The pillory is related to the\u00a0<a title=\"Stocks\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stocks\">stocks<\/a>.\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pillory\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To be subjected is to be <em>pilloried<\/em>; often used metaphorically. Noted in &#8220;<em><a href=\"https:\/\/centerforinquiry.org\/blog\/a-huge-threat-to-our-republic-morning-heresy-030823\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cA Huge Threat to Our Republic\u201d \u2013 Tucker Rewrites History, Your Brain on Food, and How Will You Spend Your \u2018Loyalty Money\u2019?\u00a0<\/a><\/em>&#8220;, JD Sword and Jeff Dellinger, <em><strong>The Morning Heresy:<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Tucker Carlson\u2019s effort to rewrite the history of the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot as \u201c\u201dmostly peaceful chaos\u201d is getting\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/bulls-gop-senators-rebuke-tucker-carlson-downplaying-jan-6-mostly-peac-rcna73764\">pilloried<\/a><\/strong>, with even prominent Republican senators like Mitch McConnell disavowing the effort. The Chief of the U.S. Capitol Police called Carlson\u2019s revisionism \u201coffensive and misleading.\u201d McConnell agreed[.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Personally, I think Carlson has come to the end of his working career. No one in journalism will ever hire him again after this decade long fiasco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pillory: The\u00a0pillory\u00a0is a device made of a wooden or metal framework erected on a post, with holes for securing the head and hands, formerly used for\u00a0punishment\u00a0by\u00a0public humiliation\u00a0and often further physical abuse.\u00a0The pillory is related to the\u00a0stocks.\u00a0[Wikipedia] To be subjected is to be pilloried; often used metaphorically. Noted in &#8220;\u201cA Huge \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/03\/12\/word-of-the-day-873\/\"> 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-38459","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\/38459","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=38459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38460,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38459\/revisions\/38460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}