{"id":42786,"date":"2025-08-14T17:48:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:48:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=42786"},"modified":"2025-08-14T17:48:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T22:48:09","slug":"word-of-the-day-1055","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/08\/14\/word-of-the-day-1055\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Ombudsman<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>an official who deals with the complaints made by the public against the government, or against organizations such as banks or insurance companies:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A<em> long list of complaints was submitted to the <strong>financial ombudsman<\/strong><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><em>I was advised to send my complaint to the <strong>banking ombudsman<\/strong>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/dictionary.cambridge.org\/dictionary\/english\/ombudsman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cambridge Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I skipped the first definition provided, since it seemed patronizing and out of date. Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/home\/post\/p-170093251\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Why I left The Washington Post<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Glenn Kessler, <em><strong>Substack<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>My decision to leave\u00a0<em>The Washington Post<\/em>\u00a0after nearly three decades began with a quixotic mission \u2014 reinstate the ombudsman. That\u2019s an in-house critic who responds to reader criticism, investigates how a story was reported and assesses whether the complaint is valid.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ombudsman: an official who deals with the complaints made by the public against the government, or against organizations such as banks or insurance companies: A long list of complaints was submitted to the financial ombudsman. I was advised to send my complaint to the banking ombudsman. [Cambridge Dictionary] I skipped \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/08\/14\/word-of-the-day-1055\/\"> 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-42786","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\/42786","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=42786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42787,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42786\/revisions\/42787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}