{"id":5776,"date":"2012-02-04T06:24:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-04T11:24:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5776"},"modified":"2012-02-04T06:36:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-04T11:36:11","slug":"word-search-of-the-day-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?p=5776","title":{"rendered":"Word Search of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I knew this would happen. I&#8217;m a little casual about proofing my blog posts and I just knew I&#8217;d find some word of the day posts with misspellings. Here&#8217;s the first one. Chutzpah.<\/p>\n<p>I was shocked not to find it when I put it in the search function. So I tried <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?s=chutzpa\">chutzpa<\/a>.  Sure enough, that&#8217;s how I&#8217;ve spelled it at least twice in the past. As Sesame Street&#8217;s Grover would say, &#8220;I&#8217;m sooo embarrassed.&#8221; Its even worse since I just twitted Sarah Palin for mispronouncing the word.  (If your Yiddish you drop the c)<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I&#8217;m a much better pronouncer than a speller. In fact, for better than a decade I&#8217;ve been the &#8220;pronouncer&#8221; at <a href=\"http:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/?s=spelling+bee\">our regional spelling bee<\/a>.  Sadly, I&#8217;ve not been invited back to do the honors again this year. <\/p>\n<p><em>Your word is disappointed as in, &#8220;The long time spelling bee pronouncer was disappointed not to be invited back to go through the dictionary once again. Disappointed.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew this would happen. I&#8217;m a little casual about proofing my blog posts and I just knew I&#8217;d find some word of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5776"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5778,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5776\/revisions\/5778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lincolndemocrat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}