{"id":185733,"date":"2014-08-26T19:12:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T00:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/26\/word-of-the-day-2\/"},"modified":"2014-08-26T19:12:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T00:12:00","slug":"word-of-the-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/08\/26\/word-of-the-day-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Manufactroversy\">Manufactroversy<\/a>: A portmanteau of, &#8220;manufactured controversy,&#8221; typically referring to an effort to create the impression of uncertainty when the facts are unequivocal.  Examples are things like the lethality\/addictive characteristics of tobacco, the anti-global warming fraudsters, and the anti-vaccine crowd.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a wonderful word, almost as sublime as the word, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/snollygoster\">Snollygoster<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manufactroversy: A portmanteau of, &#8220;manufactured controversy,&#8221; typically referring to an effort to create the impression of uncertainty when the facts are unequivocal. Examples are things like the lethality\/addictive characteristics of tobacco, the anti-global warming fraudsters, and the anti-vaccine crowd. It&#8217;s a wonderful word, almost as sublime as the word, &#8220;Snollygoster.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1051,1130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hypocrisy","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185733"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185733\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}