{"id":3839,"date":"2019-04-21T11:46:59","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T11:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/21\/word-of-the-day-perseverate\/"},"modified":"2019-04-21T11:46:59","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T11:46:59","slug":"word-of-the-day-perseverate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/21\/word-of-the-day-perseverate\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: &#8216;Perseverate&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/perseveration\">Merriam-Webster<\/a>: &quot;<span class=\"sb-0\"><span class=\"dt \"><span class=\"dtText\">continuation of something (such as repetition of a word) usually to an exceptional degree or beyond a desired point.&quot;&#0160;&#0160;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"sb-0\"><span class=\"dt \"><span class=\"dtText\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/trump-civilizational-plate-tectonics-mueller-report\/\">Example<\/a>:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"sb-0\"><span class=\"dt \"><span class=\"dtText\">Now the media and other anti-Trump partisans are going to perseverate on whether or not Trump obstructed justice during the Mueller probe. They should leave this alone. Having bet so heavily on the collusion narrative, and lost, nobody wants to listen to them bang on about collusion for two more years.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"sb-0\"><span class=\"dt \"><span class=\"dtText\">Filed under: <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/vocabulary\/\">Vocabulary<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merriam-Webster: &quot;continuation of something (such as repetition of a word) usually to an exceptional degree or beyond a desired point.&quot;&#0160;&#0160; Example: Now the media and other anti-Trump partisans are going to perseverate on whether or not Trump obstructed justice during the Mueller probe. They should leave this alone. Having bet so heavily on the collusion &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/21\/word-of-the-day-perseverate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Word of the Day: &#8216;Perseverate&#8217;&#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":[280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839","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=3839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}