{"id":680521,"date":"2010-03-02T22:46:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T03:46:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kurtisscaletta.com\/home\/?p=2342"},"modified":"2010-03-02T22:46:20","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T03:46:20","slug":"a-few-hard-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/680521","title":{"rendered":"A Few Hard Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody recently found my blog by googling &#8220;mudville hard words,&#8221; which I guess was done to fill in a blank on a book report. I&#8217;m not a big fan of book reports, but it set me to thinking about how for me some words are inexorably linked with the books where I learned them. To me, <em>radiant<\/em> means shining like a milk-washed pig and <em>curious<\/em> is how you feel when you&#8217;ve just seen a waist-coated time-conscious rabbit. <\/p>\n<p>One I remember particularly well is <em>tedious<\/em>, which is how Mr. O&#8217;Brien describes the chore of chewing through a rope for a field mouse in <em>Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH<\/em>. I rarely do some tiresome task without thinking about that little mouse gnawing at the rope. For me that is the very definition of the word. I am even encouraged by remembering her diligence. <\/p>\n<p>And so might you be, as you page through <em>Mudville<\/em> in search of hard words. Let me know if you find any.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somebody recently found my blog by googling &#8220;mudville hard words,&#8221; which I guess was done to fill in a blank on a book report. I&#8217;m not a big fan of book reports, but it set me to thinking about how for me some words are inexorably linked with the books where I learned them. To [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":768,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-680521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2R29","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/768"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=680521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/680521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=680521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=680521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=680521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}