{"id":817,"date":"2007-04-03T22:32:28","date_gmt":"2007-04-04T03:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/laineyd.wordpress.com\/2007\/04\/03\/words-to-use\/"},"modified":"2007-04-03T22:32:28","modified_gmt":"2007-04-04T03:32:28","slug":"words-to-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"Words to Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1) Vamp<\/p>\n<p>2) Limpid<\/p>\n<p>3) Oh, hell&#8230;.there&#8217;s another one. I think I looked it up online while at work (shh, don&#8217;t tell, &#8216;k?)&#8230;let&#8217;s dial into the office email and see if I can figure it out&#8230;is it languid? ersatz? hmm, the only things that pop up when I hit the down arrow on Merriam-Webster&#8217;s website are &#8220;ad hominem&#8221;, &#8220;ersatz&#8221;, &#8220;aggregate&#8221;, &#8220;commence&#8221; and &#8220;basal&#8221; (no, not &#8220;basil&#8221; &#8211; &#8220;basal&#8221;). Grrr&#8230; maybe I looked it up while online on my 2nd computer at work (a total necessity, believe me). I&#8217;d almost believe it was &#8220;languid&#8221; but I don&#8217;t remember that being the definition.<\/p>\n<p>Hmmm, can I use all of these words to make a sentence? &#8220;Elaine, you languid vamp, your ersatz ad hominem attack was aggregreat*!&#8221; But that misses &#8220;commence&#8221; and &#8220;basal.&#8221; Probably an easy fix but I remember what basal means, and, ewww.<\/p>\n<p>*yes, I was being FUNNY. Aggregrate means something totally different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1) Vamp 2) Limpid 3) Oh, hell&#8230;.there&#8217;s another one. I think I looked it up online while at work (shh, don&#8217;t tell, &#8216;k?)&#8230;let&#8217;s dial into the office email and see if I can figure it out&#8230;is it languid? ersatz? hmm, the only things that pop up when I hit the down arrow on Merriam-Webster&#8217;s website&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reading-writing-listening-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laineyd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}