{"id":32594,"date":"2024-04-05T07:33:28","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T12:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=32594"},"modified":"2024-04-05T07:33:28","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T12:33:28","slug":"epibragging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/05\/epibragging\/","title":{"rendered":"Epibragging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am not bragging too much because it starts with admitting some brief uncertainty.  But <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/04\/book-report-lake-of-the-ozarks-by-bill-geist-2019\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">yesterday<\/a>, I used the word &#8220;epigraph&#8221; correctly.  After thinking about it a minute and double-checking on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p><em>Epigraph<\/em> means a quote at the beginning of some written work, such as the poem that leads off the book I was reporting on.<\/p>\n<p>I have to slow down and think a moment because I tend to confuse epigraph with <em>epitaph<\/em>, which is a brief note on the dead; <em>epigram<\/em>, which is a brief, pithy bit of wit; or <em>epithet<\/em>, which is a brief descriptive phrase for someone or something, most often disparaging these days (but what is not?).<\/p>\n<p>I think I learned all these words in my college years, which blends them together even more.  I guess they all share the same prefix from the Greek, <em>epi<\/em>, to mark.<\/p>\n<p>I never confuse them with epiphenomenalism, though I also learned that word in college.  But in Philosophy classes, not English classes, which kept it separate and siloed.  And other obvious reasons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am not bragging too much because it starts with admitting some brief uncertainty. But yesterday, I used the word &#8220;epigraph&#8221; correctly. After thinking about it a minute and double-checking on the Internet. Epigraph means a quote at the beginning of some written work, such as the poem that leads off the book I was [&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-32594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32594","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=32594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32595,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32594\/revisions\/32595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}