{"id":43961,"date":"2026-02-20T09:35:47","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:35:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43961"},"modified":"2026-02-20T09:35:47","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T15:35:47","slug":"word-of-the-day-1098","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/02\/20\/word-of-the-day-1098\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Competency porn<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Competency porn<\/b>, or\u00a0<b>competence porn<\/b>, is a term describing media that portrays competency, qualification, intelligence, and other rigorous, capable qualities. Coined in 2009 by screenwriter\u00a0<a title=\"John Rogers (writer)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Rogers_(writer)\">John Rogers<\/a>, it has often been used in coverage regarding television shows like\u00a0<i><a title=\"The Pitt\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Pitt\">The Pitt<\/a><\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0<a title=\"The Diplomat (American TV series)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Diplomat_(American_TV_series)\"><i>The Diplomat<\/i><\/a>\u00a0and movies like\u00a0<a title=\"Apollo 13 (film)\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Apollo_13_(film)\"><i>Apollo 13<\/i><\/a>.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Competency_porn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Around since 2009, yet I had not encountered it. Shame on me. Noted in this Jennifer Garner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f0DJkEG6nDw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competency porn: Competency porn, or\u00a0competence porn, is a term describing media that portrays competency, qualification, intelligence, and other rigorous, capable qualities. Coined in 2009 by screenwriter\u00a0John Rogers, it has often been used in coverage regarding television shows like\u00a0The Pitt\u00a0and\u00a0The Diplomat\u00a0and movies like\u00a0Apollo 13. [Wikipedia] Around since 2009, yet I had \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/02\/20\/word-of-the-day-1098\/\"> 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-43961","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\/43961","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=43961"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43962,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43961\/revisions\/43962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}