{"id":8595,"date":"2010-12-02T21:53:04","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T03:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8595"},"modified":"2016-05-03T10:25:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-03T16:25:59","slug":"ugly-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8595","title":{"rendered":"Ugly Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Thanksgiving Moon<\/p>\n<p>What are the ugliest words in current usage?\u00a0 Mentee is my choice.\u00a0 Seems like the person identified by this word should have a mermaid tail and a squashed pug face.\u00a0 Others chose orientate.\u00a0 Incent and incentivize as in, We should incent them to do this.\u00a0 Emily came up with the best one though from her years at the state legislature, mute point.\u00a0 She said she&#8217;d cover her ears every time she heard it.\u00a0 Pretty good.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have a candidate?\u00a0 Send it along.<\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow the final interviews and decision time.\u00a0 That will take the afternoon.\u00a0 Latin in the morning.\u00a0 Then, a snow storm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samhain\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Waning Thanksgiving Moon What are the ugliest words in current usage?\u00a0 Mentee is my choice.\u00a0 Seems like the person identified by this word should have a mermaid tail and a squashed pug face.\u00a0 Others chose orientate.\u00a0 Incent and incentivize as in, We should incent them to do this.\u00a0 Emily came up with the best &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/?p=8595\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ugly Words<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8595"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36698,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8595\/revisions\/36698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ancientrails.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}