{"id":999,"date":"2006-04-22T10:06:58","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T17:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/word_of_the_day-6\/"},"modified":"2006-04-22T10:06:58","modified_gmt":"2006-04-22T17:06:58","slug":"word_of_the_day-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/word_of_the_day-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve checked out the &#8220;Word of the Day&#8221; box to the right, you&#8217;ll see that Google has chosen &#8220;prolix.&#8221;<br \/>\nIn reading the definition of &#8220;prolix&#8221; I suspect that many of you are thinking it applies to this blog! *G*  Yeah, what can I say?  I&#8217;m mired in detail, and rarely see the bigger picture.<br \/>\nIt strikes me that if ALL of us were to be focused on the &#8220;bigger picture,&#8221; there would be no one to handle the details, right?  I&#8217;m content to be a bean counter, and a tiny detail person, as long as I can quilt, too.  Take away my quilting and I&#8217;d have to get involved in the &#8220;bigger picture.&#8221;<br \/>\nI&#8217;d be focused on improving the quality of education in my school district, while cutting the budget.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d be removing fast food and vending machines from the cafeterias at school, and requiring the students to eat a healthy breakfast prior to class.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d be gathering votes to push our representatives and senators into participating in the Social Security system, rather than paying them a lifetime salary after retirement.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d be campaigning to limit the benefits of our welfare system.  (I believe in giving a helping hand&#8230;.but not a welfare lifestyle.)<br \/>\nI&#8217;d be pushing for increased research on alternate forms of energy.<br \/>\nI&#8217;d be focused on finding ways to check every cargo container that comes into the United States, for drugs, disease and weapons of mass destruction.<br \/>\nAnd more&#8230;.I know there&#8217;s more that I worry about out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve checked out the &#8220;Word of the Day&#8221; box to the right, you&#8217;ll see that Google has chosen &#8220;prolix.&#8221; In reading the definition of &#8220;prolix&#8221; I suspect that many of you are thinking it applies to this blog! *G* &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/word_of_the_day-6\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/999\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.redeaglespirit.com\/arrrgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}