{"id":13002,"date":"2017-12-28T08:00:15","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T12:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=13002"},"modified":"2017-12-31T23:28:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-01T04:28:17","slug":"three-great-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=13002","title":{"rendered":"Three Great Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>zugzwang:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> a situation, such as in a chess match, where you are obligated to take a turn even though it&#8217;s going to hurt your position. I take it to mean roughly &#8220;between a rock and a hard place.&#8221; You have to do something, but everything that you could do is going to make matters worse. What a horrible place to find oneself!<\/p>\n<p><strong>squidgy<\/strong>: <em>adj<\/em>. (British) soft, wet, and easy to squish. It means roughly the same as &#8220;squishy,&#8221; but it sounds even grosser.<\/p>\n<p><strong>missive:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> a letter, especially a long and formal one. I get e-mails, and sometimes cards and notes, but I never get missives. I would like a missive, please!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>zugzwang: n. a situation, such as in a chess match, where you are obligated to take a turn even though it&#8217;s going to hurt your position. I take it to mean roughly &#8220;between a rock and a hard place.&#8221; You &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/?p=13002\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13002"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13634,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13002\/revisions\/13634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluefootedmusings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}