{"id":46,"date":"2008-07-01T18:33:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-02T00:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theforgotton.ecistik.com\/blog\/?p=46"},"modified":"2008-07-01T18:33:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-02T00:33:08","slug":"a-vocabulary-building-exercise-in-futility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/a-vocabulary-building-exercise-in-futility\/","title":{"rendered":"A vocabulary-building exercise in futility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although it&#8217;s been a feature on my radio show for over a year, I somehow haven&#8217;t managed to post anything online about a weekly bit called that I call the <strong>Semi-Useless Word of the Day<\/strong>. I basically find an archaic\/obsolete\/highly-specialized word that you generally wouldn&#8217;t encounter in day-to-day life and write some sort of comedic sentence to illustrate its use. Luckily, I don&#8217;t have to thumb through worm-eaten lexicons to do so thanks to some fine websites such as the <a href=\"http:\/\/phrontistery.info\/\">Phrontistery<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islandnet.com\/~egbird\/dict\/dict.htm\">Grandiloquent Dictionary<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~wwftd\/\">Worthless Word for the Day<\/a>. For starters, here&#8217;s my most recent SUWOTD:<\/p>\n<h5><strong>6\/29\/2008 <\/strong> found through  <a href=\"http:\/\/home.comcast.net\/~wwftd\/\">WWFTD<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Marmoreal<\/strong>: <em>resembling marble, as in smoothness, whiteness, or hardness<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><br \/>\nMany beachgoers were blinded by the marmoreal belly of Mr. St. Alphonzo, a retired dental floss tycoon who had just moved to the Keys from Montana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although it&#8217;s been a feature on my radio show for over a year, I somehow haven&#8217;t managed to post anything online about a weekly bit called that I call the Semi-Useless Word of the Day. I basically find an archaic\/obsolete\/highly-specialized word that you generally wouldn&#8217;t encounter in day-to-day life and write some sort of comedic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,12],"tags":[287,161,167],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-semi-useless-word-of-the-day","tag-humor","tag-vocabulary","tag-zappa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/brynschurman.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}