{"id":42189,"date":"2025-04-15T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42189"},"modified":"2025-04-15T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T14:58:08","slug":"word-of-the-day-1032","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/04\/15\/word-of-the-day-1032\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Complaisance<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>willingness to please others by being polite and fitting in with their plans<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/complaisance\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/04\/03\/thomas-kinkade-art-for-everybody-documentary\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F41effda%2F67f0088437beb82d8ae7af66%2F59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3%2F44%2F64%2F67f0088437beb82d8ae7af66\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>A new documentary continues the Thomas Kinkade art hustle<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Philip Kennicott, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unfortunately, the consequences of being an idiot aren\u2019t suffered just by the idiots. Stupidity is a mass phenomenon: It builds on its own momentum, and that momentum can change empires. The treacle and nostalgia that [Thomas] Kinkade monetized \u2014 and that other artists, including much of Hollywood, monetize \u2014 continue to haunt us, continue to divert people from genuine experience into escapism and fantasy, continue to fritter away our public energies into private complaisance. Bad art can destroy democracy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Complaisance: willingness to please others by being polite and fitting in with their plans [Cambridge Dictionary] Noted in &#8220;A new documentary continues the Thomas Kinkade art hustle,&#8221; Philip Kennicott, WaPo: Unfortunately, the consequences of being an idiot aren\u2019t suffered just by the idiots. Stupidity is a mass phenomenon: It builds \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/04\/15\/word-of-the-day-1032\/\"> 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-42189","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\/42189","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=42189"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42190,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42189\/revisions\/42190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}