{"id":8845,"date":"2017-04-02T09:06:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-02T14:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=8845"},"modified":"2017-04-02T09:06:23","modified_gmt":"2017-04-02T14:06:23","slug":"word-of-the-day-121","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/04\/02\/word-of-the-day-121\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Cumbrous<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>cumbersome [<em><strong>Merriam-Webster<\/strong><\/em>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Another definition called it a &#8220;literary\u00a0synonym for cumbersome&#8221;, which makes some sense in that cumbersome is, itself, a cumbersome word, yet literary fiction yearns for grace. Seen in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamag.com\/longform\/the-secret-of-hollywoods-oldest-restaurant\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Secret of Hollywood\u2019s Oldest Restaurant? Don\u2019t Change Anything<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Michael Callahan, <em><strong>Los\u00a0Angeles Magazine<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It seemed as if the restaurant were expecting Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn for dinner: Calf\u2019s liver, Welsh rarebit, sweetbreads, and lamb kidney with bacon were (and continue to be) mainstays. And there is that virtual ocean of beef\u2014Flintstonian porterhouses and bone-in rib eyes, filet mignons in varying sizes, New York steaks and Manhattan steaks and ground beef steaks, all prepared in plain view on the seething Musso grill. From 1922 until 1976, the kitchen was the domain of Jean Rue Sr., a bantam Frenchman whose ego belied his size and who was the driving force behind the cumbrous cuisine. Status was conferred not only by having an assigned booth but bartenders who knew exactly how you liked your drink and chefs who would custom-make your dinner. Years after her husband\u2019s death, Barbara Sinatra would still come to Musso\u2019s to order \u201csand dabs \u00e0 la Sinatra\u201d (read: nice and crispy).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cumbrous: cumbersome [Merriam-Webster] Another definition called it a &#8220;literary\u00a0synonym for cumbersome&#8221;, which makes some sense in that cumbersome is, itself, a cumbersome word, yet literary fiction yearns for grace. Seen in &#8220;The Secret of Hollywood\u2019s Oldest Restaurant? Don\u2019t Change Anything,&#8221; Michael Callahan, Los\u00a0Angeles Magazine: It seemed as if the restaurant \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/04\/02\/word-of-the-day-121\/\"> 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-8845","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\/8845","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=8845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8846,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8845\/revisions\/8846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}