{"id":8571,"date":"2005-07-21T12:59:37","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T12:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8571"},"modified":"2005-07-21T12:59:37","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T12:59:37","slug":"attention-word-nerds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8571","title":{"rendered":"Attention Word Nerds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Street Tech pal Erin McKean of Oxford University Press publishes a cool e-list called &#8220;Erin&#8217;s Weird and Wonderful Word of the Day.&#8221; Today&#8217;s word is: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p> furciferous [fur-SIF-er-us]<br \/> an adjective meaning &#8216;like a rascal&#8217;. From a Latin word meaning &#8216;fork-bearer&#8217;, which, by analogy with the forked yoke put on the necks of criminals, also came to mean &#8216;jailbird&#8217;. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> OUP also publishes an &#8220;American Slang Word of the Day&#8221; list. Both are free. Subscribe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oup.com\/us\/subscriptions\/subscribe\/?view=usa\" target=\"new\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Street Tech pal Erin McKean of Oxford University Press publishes a cool e-list called &#8220;Erin&#8217;s Weird and Wonderful Word of the Day.&#8221; Today&#8217;s word is: furciferous [fur-SIF-er-us] an adjective meaning &#8216;like a rascal&#8217;. From a Latin word meaning &#8216;fork-bearer&#8217;, which, by analogy with the forked yoke put on the necks of criminals, also came to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8571\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Attention Word Nerds&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}