{"id":40816,"date":"2024-08-20T22:04:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T03:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40816"},"modified":"2024-08-20T22:04:42","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T03:04:42","slug":"word-of-the-day-981","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/08\/20\/word-of-the-day-981\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Leitmotif<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a phrase or other feature that is repeated often in a work of art, literature, or music and that tells you something important about it:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Death and renewal are leitmotivs running through the whole novel. [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/leitmotiv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<em>Sam Bankman-Fried, a personal verdict<\/em>,&#8221; Michael Lewis, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIn other words,\u201d said the judge, \u201ca man willing to flip a coin as to the continued existence of life and civilization on Earth, if the chances were imperceptibly greater that it would come out without that catastrophic outcome, that\u2019s really a leitmotif in my judgment of this entire case. \u2026 It\u2019s his nature.\u201d Because it was his nature, the judge concluded, Sam [Bankman-Fried] would, if given the chance, do something like what he had just done all over again. \u201cThere is a risk that this man will be in a position to do something very bad in the future, and it\u2019s not a trivial risk, not a trivial risk at all,\u201d said the judge. \u201cSo, in part, my sentence will be for the purpose of disabling him.\u201d He then sentenced Sam to 25 years in prison, with no possibility of parole.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leitmotif: a phrase or other feature that is repeated often in a work of art, literature, or music and that tells you something important about it: Death and renewal are leitmotivs running through the whole novel. [Cambridge Dictionary] Noted in &#8220;Sam Bankman-Fried, a personal verdict,&#8221; Michael Lewis, WaPo: \u201cIn other \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/08\/20\/word-of-the-day-981\/\"> 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-40816","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\/40816","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=40816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40817,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40816\/revisions\/40817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}