{"id":41227,"date":"2024-10-17T21:18:23","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T02:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41227"},"modified":"2024-10-17T21:18:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T02:18:38","slug":"word-of-the-day-995","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/10\/17\/word-of-the-day-995\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Retcon<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Retroactive continuity is a literary device in which previously established information in a work of fiction is changed, ignored, or contradicted to suit the current story.<\/p>\n

Called a \u201cretcon\u201d for short, it\u2019s mostly seen in works of serial fiction, such as comics and television series. [TCK Publishing<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Noted in “Trump drops the pretense, labels Jan. 6 insurrectionists \u2018we\u2019<\/em><\/a>,” Aaron Blake, WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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In the intervening four years [since the January 6th, 2021 insurrection riot], though, Trump himself has expressed an increasing amount of sympathy for the rioters<\/a> \u2014 not just for their humanity and purported legal persecution (he has repeatedly floated pardons), but also for their actions. He has clearly sought to retcon that day from one of national shame to one that is to be, in many ways, celebrated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Retcon: Retroactive continuity is a literary device in which previously established information in a work of fiction is changed, ignored, or contradicted to suit the current story. Called a \u201cretcon\u201d for short, it\u2019s mostly seen in works of serial fiction, such as comics and television series. [TCK Publishing] Noted in \u2026 Continue reading → <\/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-41227","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\/41227","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=41227"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41229,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41227\/revisions\/41229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}