{"id":39008,"date":"2023-07-26T13:24:48","date_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=39008"},"modified":"2023-07-26T13:24:48","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:24:48","slug":"word-of-the-day-899","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/07\/26\/word-of-the-day-899\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Parvenu<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/parvenu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Merriam-Webster<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Compare to <a href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/12\/30\/word-of-the-day-852\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>parvenue<\/em><\/a>. Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/andrewsullivan.substack.com\/p\/the-tao-of-marty\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Tao Of Marty<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Andrew Sullivan, <em><strong>The Weekly Dish<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And I have to say I was a little nervous about his new memoir,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Controversialist-Arguments-Everyone-Right-Center-ebook\/dp\/B0BZQF4CHK\" rel=\"\">The Controversialist<\/a>: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center<\/em>, as anyone who knows they\u2019ll be written about in someone\u2019s memoir might be, but I soon forgot about that as I started reading. The story is a deeply, fascinatingly American one. A parvenu, Brooklyn-born, Brandeis-educated Jew who became a \u201cHarvard patriot\u201d in his words, Marty bought\u00a0<em>The New Republic<\/em>\u00a0in 1974, and he turned it, for three decades, into essential reading.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parvenu: one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it\u00a0[Merriam-Webster] Compare to parvenue. Noted in &#8220;The Tao Of Marty,&#8221; Andrew Sullivan, The Weekly Dish: And I have to say I was \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/07\/26\/word-of-the-day-899\/\"> 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-39008","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\/39008","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=39008"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39009,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39008\/revisions\/39009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}