{"id":2249,"date":"2005-05-13T13:20:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2249"},"modified":"2018-06-08T17:11:50","modified_gmt":"2018-06-08T22:11:50","slug":"word-of-the-day-twee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/05\/13\/word-of-the-day-twee\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: Twee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word: <a href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/search?q=twee\" target=\"_new\">Twee<\/a>: Overly precious or nice.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t normally do words of the day, but I&#8217;ve encountered this word twice already this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Neil Steinberg of the <i>Chicago Sun-Times<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/output\/steinberg\/cst-nws-stein13.html\" target=\"_new\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n(And why don&#8217;t men garden in ads? I know lots of guys who garden, who are proud of their tomatoes. I sure am. Is it <b>twee<\/b>? Come by the office and say that to my face!)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mark Steyn <a href=\"http:\/\/www.steynonline.com\/index2.cfm?edit_id=26\" target=\"_new\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe score gives you a good clue to the main problem: sometimes it\u2019s grand and epic, at others it\u2019s <b>twee<\/b> and nudging and determined to jolly along the flattest of gags. <\/blockquotel>\n<p>Weird, huh?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word: Twee: Overly precious or nice. I don&#8217;t normally do words of the day, but I&#8217;ve encountered this word twice already this morning. Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: (And why don&#8217;t men garden in ads? I know lots of guys who garden, who are proud of their tomatoes. I sure am. Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20121,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions\/20121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}