{"id":723,"date":"2002-09-27T22:08:24","date_gmt":"2002-09-28T06:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/27\/a-link-for-dad\/"},"modified":"2019-11-27T14:09:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T22:09:23","slug":"a-link-for-dad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/09\/27\/a-link-for-dad\/","title":{"rendered":"A link for dad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just found a new place on the web that I could spend hours at, and I think dad would get a kick out of this too, given our mutual enjoyment of words &#8212; there&#8217;s even an e-mail list to sign up for&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Welcome to the home of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordspy.com\/\" title=\"The Word Spy\">the Word Spy<\/a>. This Web site and its associated mailing list are devoted to recently coined words, existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance, and older words that are being used in new ways.<\/p>\n<p>  Each weekday, the Word Spy presents a new word, its definition, and a citation (usually from a major newspaper or magazine) that shows how people are using the word. You also get extra goodies such as background on the word&#8217;s formation, a list of related words from the Word Spy database, quotations on words and language, and more.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.backupbrain.com\/2002_09_22_archive.html#a003006\" title=\"Backup Brain: Words, Words, Words\">Backup Brain<\/a> for this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each weekday, the Word Spy presents a new word, its definition, and a citation (usually from a major newspaper or magazine) that shows how people are using the word. You also get extra goodies such as background on the word&#8217;s formation, a list of related words from the Word Spy database, quotations on words and language, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}