{"id":429,"date":"2005-04-20T11:24:17","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T19:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=429"},"modified":"2005-04-23T19:29:08","modified_gmt":"2005-04-24T03:29:08","slug":"words-of-the-day-brought-to-you-by-the-number-17-and-pie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=429","title":{"rendered":"Words of the Day, brought to you by the number 17!  And Pie!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Until moments ago,  I had not heard the word &#8220;canard&#8221; in any context other than the obvious &#8220;It&#8217;s FRAH-NCH for DUCK!&#8221; context.  But actually, it means:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=canard\"> <i>An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story <\/i><\/a> &#8230; among other things.  (The other things are to do with planes and don&#8217;t interest me as much.)<\/p>\n<p>eg: I have never, in all my years in the BC Legislature, been privy to such an overt canard!<\/p>\n<p>Canard is a great word but it is not as great as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imma.org\/pinnipeds\/\"> Pinniped, <\/a> referring to the family of mammals which includes seals, sea lions and &#8220;the walrus.&#8221;  It is <b>so<\/b> Fun To Say.  I have said Pinniped every hour on the hour for the last two days and this does NOT make me crazy it makes me cute.  <\/p>\n<p>Now, I have <b>said<\/b> Pinniped but not spelled it so it is fun also to note that often, Pinniped will be misspelled (by me) as &#8220;Pinnipeg&#8221; which makes me giggle and makes me think of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silentqueuedesign.com\/babyblog\"> Sarah. <\/a>  Hi Sarah!  Hope you are enjoying Pinnipeg!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Until moments ago, I had not heard the word &#8220;canard&#8221; in any context other than the obvious &#8220;It&#8217;s FRAH-NCH for DUCK!&#8221; context. But actually, it means: An unfounded or false, deliberately misleading story &#8230; among other things. (The other things &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=429\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}