{"id":9905,"date":"2017-06-14T08:37:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T13:37:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=9905"},"modified":"2017-06-14T08:37:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T13:37:24","slug":"word-of-the-day-162","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/06\/14\/word-of-the-day-162\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Solon<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>n. &#8220;legislator,&#8221; 1620s, from Greek Solon, name of early lawgiver of Athens, one of the seven sages. Often, especially in U.S., applied (with perhaps a whiff of sarcasm) by journalists to Congressmen, township supervisors, etc. It also is a useful short headline word. [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/solon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Dictionary.com<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seen in &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/448572\/texas-supreme-court-elected-justices-integrity-california-supreme-court-appointed-politicized\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>In Texas, a State Supreme Court Maintains Integrity, Despite Politics<\/em><\/a>,&#8221; Mark Pulliam, <em><strong>National Review<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The existence of partisan judicial elections, controversial in some circles, ensures ideological consistency in a red state such as Texas but also requires judges to raise money and campaign, activities that many black-robed solons find unappealing. This may explain the relatively high turnover on Texas\u2019s supreme court, which is helmed by Chief Justice Nathan Hecht, 67, a silver-maned jurist initially elected to that venue in 1988.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solon: n. &#8220;legislator,&#8221; 1620s, from Greek Solon, name of early lawgiver of Athens, one of the seven sages. Often, especially in U.S., applied (with perhaps a whiff of sarcasm) by journalists to Congressmen, township supervisors, etc. It also is a useful short headline word. [Dictionary.com] Seen in &#8220;In Texas, a \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/06\/14\/word-of-the-day-162\/\"> 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-9905","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\/9905","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=9905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9907,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9905\/revisions\/9907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}