{"id":42646,"date":"2025-07-22T21:59:28","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42646"},"modified":"2025-07-22T21:59:28","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T02:59:28","slug":"word-of-the-day-1051","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/07\/22\/word-of-the-day-1051\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Polycule<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The word \u201cpolycule\u201d is a portmanteau for a \u201cpolyamorous molecule.\u201d In practice, a polycule is a group of non-monogamous people linked by romantic and sexual relationships, &#8230; . It can be as big or as small as you can imagine. &#8220;A polycule can be three individuals or an infinite number of people, as no two polycule structures are alike,&#8221; she adds. The number of people in a polycule depends on each member&#8217;s intentions.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.womenshealthmag.com\/relationships\/a60410228\/what-is-a-polycule\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Women&#8217;s Health<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s new, I&#8217;d not run across it before. Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/power\/2025\/06\/18\/young-maga-women\/?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%2F433c6e9%2F6858288949bb330225cde371%2F59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3%2F41%2F57%2F6858288949bb330225cde371\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>MAGA and the single girl<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Kara Voght, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Arynne Wexler] believes there are plenty of people like her out there \u2014 those with \u201ccommon sense, patriotic values\u201d \u2014 who feel culturally out of place among conservatives. The 2024 election cycle had been an \u201cascendant time\u201d for the right, she said, but that was partly because people were sick of the excesses of the left \u2014 the people Wexler would describe at her panel as \u201candrogynous pixie haircut unbathed Marxist freaks in polycules.\u201d But a backlash against liberal ways of life isn\u2019t the same as an endorsement of the opposite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A bit clumsy, like much of lefty thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Polycule: The word \u201cpolycule\u201d is a portmanteau for a \u201cpolyamorous molecule.\u201d In practice, a polycule is a group of non-monogamous people linked by romantic and sexual relationships, &#8230; . It can be as big or as small as you can imagine. &#8220;A polycule can be three individuals or an infinite \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/07\/22\/word-of-the-day-1051\/\"> 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-42646","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\/42646","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=42646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42647,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42646\/revisions\/42647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}