{"id":41233,"date":"2024-10-18T10:16:54","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T15:16:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41233"},"modified":"2024-10-18T10:16:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-18T15:16:54","slug":"word-of-the-day-996","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/10\/18\/word-of-the-day-996\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Obscurantist<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you describe something as\u00a0obscurantist, you mean that it is deliberately\u00a0<a class=\"ref type-def\" title=\"Definition of vague\" href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/dictionary\/english\/vague\">vague<\/a>\u00a0and difficult to\u00a0<a class=\"ref type-def\" title=\"Definition of understand\" href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/dictionary\/english\/understand\">understand<\/a>, so that it prevents people from\u00a0<a class=\"ref type-def\" title=\"Definition of finding\" href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/dictionary\/english\/finding\">finding<\/a>\u00a0out the truth about it.<br \/>\n<em>I think that a lot of poetry published today is obscurantist nonsense. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/dictionary\/english\/obscurantist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Collins Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ah. Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edwest.co.uk\/p\/the-battle-for-george-orwells-soul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The battle for George Orwell\u2019s soul<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Ed West, <em><strong>The Wrong Side of History<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For Lynskey, Trump and Trumpism is the obvious analogy. The American Caesar meets most criteria of Orwell\u2019s definition of fascism: \u2018something cruel, unscrupulous, arrogant, obscurantist, anti-liberal and anti-working-class\u2026 almost any English person would accept \u201cbully\u201d as a synonym for \u201cFascist\u201d.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A neat little article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obscurantist: If you describe something as\u00a0obscurantist, you mean that it is deliberately\u00a0vague\u00a0and difficult to\u00a0understand, so that it prevents people from\u00a0finding\u00a0out the truth about it. I think that a lot of poetry published today is obscurantist nonsense. [Collins Dictionary] Ah. Noted in &#8220;The battle for George Orwell\u2019s soul,&#8221; Ed West, The \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/10\/18\/word-of-the-day-996\/\"> 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-41233","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\/41233","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=41233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41234,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41233\/revisions\/41234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}