{"id":38616,"date":"2023-04-18T15:13:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38616"},"modified":"2023-04-18T15:13:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T20:13:50","slug":"word-of-the-day-881","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/04\/18\/word-of-the-day-881\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pendency<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>the time when something is pending (= waiting to happen), especially a legal or official process, or the state of being pending:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>He will be held in jail during the pendency of (= while waiting for) the trial.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Very few people actually reconcile during the pendency of a divorce.<\/em><em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/pendency\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/stories\/2023\/4\/16\/2164304\/-Rumors-Of-Fox-Settlement-With-Dominion-It-s-Tougher-Than-You-Think?pm_source=story_sidebar&amp;pm_medium=web&amp;pm_campaign=recommended\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Rumors Of Fox Settlement With Dominion? It&#8217;s Tougher Than You Think<\/em><\/a>.&#8221; KeithDB, <em><strong>Daily Kos<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My settlement involved over 1,000 clients. Calculating the settlement for each was a daunting accounting issue. Once accomplished the specific monetary settlement offers had to be communicated to all of those clients, and their approval ascertained. Try doing that with 1,000+ people. Some of the client corporations (hospitals) had multiple changes in leadership over the pendency of the case with the new leaders having no idea the case even existed. I will say the calls to them were fun as I advised them of the surprise money coming in, but all that took time.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Imagine how many clerks something like that would have taken prior to computers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pendency: the time when something is pending (= waiting to happen), especially a legal or official process, or the state of being pending: He will be held in jail during the pendency of (= while waiting for) the trial. Very few people actually reconcile during the pendency of a divorce. \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/04\/18\/word-of-the-day-881\/\"> 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-38616","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\/38616","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=38616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38617,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38616\/revisions\/38617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}