{"id":42267,"date":"2025-05-11T07:57:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:57:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42267"},"modified":"2025-05-11T07:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-05-11T12:57:26","slug":"word-of-the-day-1038","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/05\/11\/word-of-the-day-1038\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Perseveration<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>the act of saying or doing something repeatedly when there is no longer any reason to do so:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Many of the errors that the children made consisted of verbal substitutions and perseverations.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Perseveration may be a sign that a child is on the autism spectrum. [<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/perseveration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in this <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em> article title. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/advice\/2025\/05\/01\/carolyn-hax-overthinking-night-life-mistakes\/?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%2F4258796%2F68139bf0dd86c91e54d003f5%2F59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3%2F37%2F60%2F68139bf0dd86c91e54d003f5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Carolyn Hax: 4 a.m. bathroom breaks become perseverations on life\u2019s mistakes.<\/em><\/a>&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perseveration: the act of saying or doing something repeatedly when there is no longer any reason to do so: Many of the errors that the children made consisted of verbal substitutions and perseverations. Perseveration may be a sign that a child is on the autism spectrum. [Cambridge Dictionary] Noted in \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/05\/11\/word-of-the-day-1038\/\"> 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-42267","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\/42267","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=42267"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42269,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42267\/revisions\/42269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}