{"id":13963,"date":"2024-07-31T12:06:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T17:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/?p=13963"},"modified":"2024-07-31T12:06:12","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T17:06:12","slug":"word-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2024\/07\/31\/word-play\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Play"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Internet Challenge:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"520\" height=\"1020\" src=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/meme_obscurewords.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13964\" style=\"width:520px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/meme_obscurewords.jpg 520w, https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/meme_obscurewords-153x300.jpg 153w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Me<\/strong>: Hold my <s>beer<\/s> thesaurus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Also me:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Having almost recovered from a <strong>nudiustertian<\/strong> <strong>jentacular<\/strong> meal that qualified as an absolute <strong>floccinaucinihilipilification<\/strong> \u2013 the <strong>jumentous<\/strong> omelet combining in such a way with the <strong>erinaceous<\/strong> profile of the biscuit that I feared I would expire from <strong>tyrotoxism<\/strong> \u2013 I stepped out onto the front porch and was staggered to find that the <strong>qualtagh<\/strong> of the morning would be the reclusive <strong>xylopolist<\/strong> who lived down the street, my surprise was compounded by his apparent recovery from a recent bout of <strong>tarantism<\/strong> so extreme that he lost the <strong>aglets<\/strong> from both shoes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>But, you know, it is what it is.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Big words don&#8217;t scare me, although they probably should.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books-writing","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13963"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13968,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13963\/revisions\/13968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}