{"id":41106,"date":"2024-10-01T19:12:27","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T00:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41106"},"modified":"2024-10-01T19:12:27","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T00:12:27","slug":"word-of-the-day-991","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/10\/01\/word-of-the-day-991\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Traduce<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame:<br \/>\n<em>to traduce someone&#8217;s character. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/traduce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dictionary.com<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I may have seen <em>traduce<\/em> once, or even twice, before, but I fear I was ignorant of its meaning until moments ago. Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/interactive\/2024\/cyber-sleuth\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;wpisrc=nl_most&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3f291f0%2F66fc1db37867fa4f11787fc7%2F59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3%2F35%2F54%2F66fc1db37867fa4f11787fc7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>THE CYBER SLEUTH<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Geraldine Brooks, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The next time a politician or a pundit traduces the IRS, or JD Vance suggests firing half the civil service and putting in \u201cour people,\u201d consider whether a system that filled out its ranks with a new batch of political loyalists every four years would have the expertise of these dedicated, lifelong civil servants.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traduce: to speak maliciously and falsely of; slander; defame: to traduce someone&#8217;s character. [Dictionary.com] I may have seen traduce once, or even twice, before, but I fear I was ignorant of its meaning until moments ago. Noted in &#8220;THE CYBER SLEUTH,&#8221; Geraldine Brooks, WaPo: The next time a politician or \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/10\/01\/word-of-the-day-991\/\"> 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-41106","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\/41106","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=41106"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41107,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41106\/revisions\/41107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}