{"id":6835,"date":"2016-11-26T11:33:31","date_gmt":"2016-11-26T17:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=6835"},"modified":"2016-11-26T11:33:31","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T17:33:31","slug":"word-of-the-day-46","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/26\/word-of-the-day-46\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Rodomontade<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Rodomontade<\/b> <i>\\rod-uh-muhn-TADE; roh-duh-muhn-TAHD\\<\/i> is a <a title=\"Mass noun\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mass_noun\">mass noun<\/a> meaning boastful talk or behavior. The term is a reference to <a title=\"Rodomonte\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rodomonte\">Rodomonte<\/a>, a character in Italian Renaissance epic poems <i><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Orlando innamorato\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orlando_innamorato\">Orlando innamorato<\/a><\/i> and its sequel <i><a class=\"mw-redirect\" title=\"Orlando furioso\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Orlando_furioso\">Orlando furioso<\/a><\/i>. [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rodomontade\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Observed in\u00a0Jack Vance\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Killing_Machine\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Killing Machine<\/strong><\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Six volumes of rhodomontade <em>[sic]<\/em> and piffle.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; <em>Academia<\/em>, London, Earth.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rodomontade: Rodomontade \\rod-uh-muhn-TADE; roh-duh-muhn-TAHD\\ is a mass noun meaning boastful talk or behavior. The term is a reference to Rodomonte, a character in Italian Renaissance epic poems Orlando innamorato and its sequel Orlando furioso. [Wikipedia] Observed in\u00a0Jack Vance\u2019s The Killing Machine: Six volumes of rhodomontade [sic] and piffle. &#8230; Academia, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/26\/word-of-the-day-46\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-6835","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\/6835","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=6835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6836,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6835\/revisions\/6836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}