{"id":7839,"date":"2017-01-30T21:38:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-31T03:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=7839"},"modified":"2017-01-30T21:38:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T03:38:04","slug":"word-of-the-day-84","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/01\/30\/word-of-the-day-84\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Avuncular<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality <em class=\"vi\">&lt;<em>avuncular<\/em> indulgence&gt;<\/em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/avuncular\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Merriam-Webster<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Encountered in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2017\/02\/06\/inside-the-trial-of-dylann-roof\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Inside the Trial of Dylann Roof<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Jelani Cobb, <em><strong>The New Yorker<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Judge Richard Gergel was presiding. He is an avuncular silver-haired man with a reputation for efficiency and a liberal bent; in 2014, he issued a ruling that same-sex couples have the right to marry in South Carolina, and he was responsible for installing a portrait of Jonathan Jasper Wright, the state\u2019s first black Supreme Court justice, in the Court building.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Avuncular: suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality &lt;avuncular indulgence&gt; [Merriam-Webster] Encountered in &#8220;Inside the Trial of Dylann Roof,&#8221; Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker: Judge Richard Gergel was presiding. He is an avuncular silver-haired man with a reputation for efficiency and a liberal bent; in 2014, he issued \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/01\/30\/word-of-the-day-84\/\"> 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-7839","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\/7839","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=7839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7840,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7839\/revisions\/7840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}