{"id":263,"date":"2001-02-27T23:55:03","date_gmt":"2001-02-27T23:55:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2001\/02\/27\/words-to-survive\/"},"modified":"2010-07-06T21:01:16","modified_gmt":"2010-07-07T01:01:16","slug":"words-to-survive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/2001\/02\/27\/words-to-survive\/","title":{"rendered":"WORDS TO SURVIVE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s words all have vaguely to do with <em>survival. <\/em>As always, definitions have been  liberated from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\" target=\"_blank\">Dictionary.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/cgi-bin\/dict.pl?term=Diuturnity\" target=\"_blank\">diuturnity<\/a><\/strong> \\di`u*tur&#8221;ni*ty\\, n. [L. diuturnitas.] Long duration; lastingness<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/cgi-bin\/dict.pl?term=heeltap\">heeltap<\/a><\/strong> \\Heel&#8221;tap`\\, n. 1. A small portion of liquor left in a glass after  drinking. 2. A layer of leather or wood added to raise the heel of a shoe; a  lift.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/cgi-bin\/dict.pl?term=surplusage\">surplusage<\/a><\/strong> \\sur&#8221;plus*age\\, n. 1. Surplus; excess; overplus; as, surplusage of grain or  goods beyond what is wanted. 2. (Law) Matter in pleading which is not necessary  or relevant to the case, and which may be rejected.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s words all have vaguely to do with survival. As always, definitions have been liberated from Dictionary.com.<\/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":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-wide-web-words"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4E3H-4f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":455,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/semitrue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}