{"id":784,"date":"2006-08-05T06:38:23","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T06:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=784"},"modified":"2006-08-05T06:38:23","modified_gmt":"2006-08-05T06:38:23","slug":"words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are certain words that strike me for some strange reason.  I came across one of those words while finishing a short story by Truman Capote.  The word?  &#8220;Akimbo&#8221;<br \/>\nA few words that strike me ~<br \/>\n<strong>Akimbo:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Placed in such a way as to have the hands on the hips and the elbows bowed outward: children standing with arms akimbo.<br \/>\n2. Being in a bent, bowed, or arched position: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There he remained, dead to the world, limbs akimbo, until we left\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (Alex Shoumatoff).<br \/>\n[Middle English in kenebowe : in, in; see in1 + kenebowe(kene-, of unknown meaning + bowe, bow, bend; see bow3).]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Vainglory:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. Boastful, unwarranted pride in one&#8217;s accomplishments or qualities.<br \/>\n2. Vain, ostentatious display.<br \/>\n[Middle English vein glory, from Old French vaine gloire, from Latin vna glria, empty pride  : vna, feminine of vnus, empty; see vain + glria, glory, pride.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Vouchsafe<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To condescend to grant or bestow (a privilege, for example); deign.<br \/>\n[Middle English vouchen sauf, to warrant as safe  : vouchen, to warrant; see vouch + sauf, safe; see safe.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I find it interesting that I have never encountered this word with the connotation of condescension.  Perhaps in the vernacular, but if you look at the word&#8217;s origins, a sense of condescension doesn&#8217;t seem to be there.  Of course, my encounter with the word comes primarily from the Book of Common Prayer and in an ecclesial setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are certain words that strike me for some strange reason. I came across one of those words while finishing a short story by Truman Capote. The word? &#8220;Akimbo&#8221; A few words that strike me ~ Akimbo: 1. Placed in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=784\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}