{"id":46061,"date":"2026-10-15T13:56:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:56:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=46061"},"modified":"2026-10-15T13:56:48","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T18:56:48","slug":"word-of-the-day-1153","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/10\/15\/word-of-the-day-1153\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Hopium<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Hopium<\/strong> is a portmanteau of the words &#8220;hope&#8221; and &#8220;opium&#8221; used to describe a fictional drug to help one stay hopeful in times of stress. &#8230;\u00a0<em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/knowyourmeme.com\/memes\/hopium\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>KnowYourMeme<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cute, I like it. Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/danieldrezner.substack.com\/p\/the-post-midterms-scenario-no-one\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Post-Midterms Scenario No One Believes Will Happen&#8230; But I Kinda Sorta Think Maybe It Will Happen<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Daniel W. Drezner, <em><strong>Drezner&#8217;s World<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Of course, Democrats be Democrats, so they\u2019re gonna be worrying until November 3rd. This is why the hard-working staff here at Drezner\u2019s World is launching\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/danieldrezner.substack.com\/p\/exposure-therapy-for-democrats-part\">its exposure therapy series<\/a>. But occasional whiffs of hopium are also useful this time of year. If \u2014 I said if \u2014 Democrats absolutely crush the midterms, what would that mean for American politics for the next two years? Surely a midterm where Democrats win in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/polls\/texas-us-senate-election-polls-2026.html\">Texas\u00a0<\/a>and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/polls\/kansas-us-senate-election-polls-2026.html\">Kansas\u00a0<\/a>would require some political resets, right? Right?!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopium: Hopium is a portmanteau of the words &#8220;hope&#8221; and &#8220;opium&#8221; used to describe a fictional drug to help one stay hopeful in times of stress. &#8230;\u00a0[KnowYourMeme] Cute, I like it. Noted in &#8220;The Post-Midterms Scenario No One Believes Will Happen&#8230; But I Kinda Sorta Think Maybe It Will Happen,&#8221; \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/10\/15\/word-of-the-day-1153\/\"> 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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46061","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=46061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46062,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46061\/revisions\/46062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}