{"id":4073,"date":"2018-11-27T04:52:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T04:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/11\/27\/peninsulate\/"},"modified":"2018-11-27T04:52:41","modified_gmt":"2018-11-27T04:52:41","slug":"peninsulate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/11\/27\/peninsulate\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Peninsulate&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">If &#39;insulate&#39; is a word, from the Latin <em>insula<\/em>, <em>insulae<\/em>, island, then why not &#39;peninsulate,&#39; <em>v. i<\/em>. meaning to insulate partially?&#0160;&#0160;Example featuring an adjectival cognate:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">His is a peninsular life, a balanced life, neither continental not insular. While connected to the mainland of the traditional, the quotidian, and the commonsensical, a part of him stretches out into the oceanic Apeiron.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Does your mother look askance at your new boyfriend? Perhaps the above sentence will take the edge off her disapprobation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If &#39;insulate&#39; is a word, from the Latin insula, insulae, island, then why not &#39;peninsulate,&#39; v. i. meaning to insulate partially?&#0160;&#0160;Example featuring an adjectival cognate: His is a peninsular life, a balanced life, neither continental not insular. While connected to the mainland of the traditional, the quotidian, and the commonsensical, a part of him stretches &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/11\/27\/peninsulate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8216;Peninsulate&#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":[6,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4073","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\/4073","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=4073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}