{"id":4076,"date":"2018-11-26T16:45:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:45:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/11\/26\/word-of-the-day-degringolade\/"},"modified":"2018-11-26T16:45:45","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T16:45:45","slug":"word-of-the-day-degringolade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/11\/26\/word-of-the-day-degringolade\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: D\u00e9gringolade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/d%C3%A9gringolade\">Merriam-Webster<\/a>:&#0160;<strong class=\"mw_t_bc\">&#0160;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">a rapid decline or deterioration (as in strength, position, or condition)&#0160;<strong class=\"mw_t_bc\">:&#0160;<\/strong><a class=\"mw_t_sx\" href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/downfall\"><span class=\"text-uppercase\">DOWNFALL<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"text-uppercase\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Example from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commonwealmagazine.org\/why-i-left\">Why I Left <\/a>by Jim Holt:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"text-uppercase\" style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I will now confess to the obvious: the foregoing account of my spiritual&#0160;<em>d\u00e9gringolade<\/em>, while true in every detail, is a caricature. My alienation from the Catholic Church was not mainly intellectual. It was moral, even emotional.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merriam-Webster:&#0160;&#0160; a rapid decline or deterioration (as in strength, position, or condition)&#0160;:&#0160;DOWNFALL Example from Why I Left by Jim Holt: I will now confess to the obvious: the foregoing account of my spiritual&#0160;d\u00e9gringolade, while true in every detail, is a caricature. My alienation from the Catholic Church was not mainly intellectual. It was moral, even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/11\/26\/word-of-the-day-degringolade\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Word of the Day: D\u00e9gringolade&#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":[62,260,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-catholic-corner","category-conversions","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076","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=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}