{"id":40876,"date":"2024-08-26T10:47:37","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40876"},"modified":"2024-08-26T10:47:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T15:47:37","slug":"word-of-the-day-983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/08\/26\/word-of-the-day-983\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Spiel<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>a speech, especially one that is long and spoken quickly and is intended to persuade the person listening about something<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>a sales spiel<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>They gave us a long spiel about why we needed to install double glazing in our house. [<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/us\/dictionary\/english\/spiel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cambridge Dictionary<\/a><\/strong>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>A bit old-fashioned, I suspect, but useful for period fiction or a desire to distinguish oneself with one&#8217;s patter, which is itself listed as a synonym.. I wonder how many campaign speeches qualify, as the <em>spoken quickly<\/em> constraint surprised me a bit. Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2024\/08\/23\/harris-dnc-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Harris embraces patriotism and decency. Will voters?<\/em><\/a>&#8221; Jennifer Rubin, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This was a presidential-level address, not merely another campaign spiel. [Kamala Harris&#8217;] delivery, timing and demeanor conveyed calm authority. She is betting that patriotism, decency and kindness still win in Americans\u2019 hearts. She stuck the landing this week; now, it\u2019s up to the country to prove her right.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spiel: a speech, especially one that is long and spoken quickly and is intended to persuade the person listening about something: a sales spiel They gave us a long spiel about why we needed to install double glazing in our house. [Cambridge Dictionary] A bit old-fashioned, I suspect, but useful \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/08\/26\/word-of-the-day-983\/\"> 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-40876","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\/40876","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=40876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40877,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40876\/revisions\/40877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}