{"id":3615,"date":"2019-09-08T15:12:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-08T15:12:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/08\/word-of-the-day-psephology\/"},"modified":"2019-09-08T15:12:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-08T15:12:55","slug":"word-of-the-day-psephology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/08\/word-of-the-day-psephology\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: Psephology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/psephology\">Merriam-Webster<\/a>: &quot;the scientific study of elections.&quot; &quot;Psephology is from the Greek word&#0160;<em>ps\u0113phos,<\/em> meaning &#39;pebble.&#39;&quot;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Necro-psephology is a growing field of inquiry in the Chicago area. For in those precincts there is a sizable turnout at elections of the dearly departed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">If you have a large vocabulary you will love my blog; if you don&#39;t, you need it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merriam-Webster: &quot;the scientific study of elections.&quot; &quot;Psephology is from the Greek word&#0160;ps\u0113phos, meaning &#39;pebble.&#39;&quot; Necro-psephology is a growing field of inquiry in the Chicago area. For in those precincts there is a sizable turnout at elections of the dearly departed. If you have a large vocabulary you will love my blog; if you don&#39;t, you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/09\/08\/word-of-the-day-psephology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Word of the Day: Psephology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}