{"id":117592,"date":"2021-01-18T12:47:18","date_gmt":"2021-01-18T18:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=117592"},"modified":"2021-01-18T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T19:13:00","slug":"todays-useful-word-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-useful-word-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s useful word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peekinthewell.net\/blog\/fraudulum\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fraudulum<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And so I propose the FRAUDULUM. It is the smallest unit of fraud. I define it to be the amount of fraud that is taking place when a husband tells his wife that the pants do not make her ass look fat. When you call a company and their recorded message tells you \u201cYour call is very important to us,\u201d that is 2 or 3 fraudulum. When the gas company calls and you tell them the check is in the mail, that is a dozen fraudulum. A dozen dozen fraudulum is a gross fraudulum, and that\u2019s when a politician tells you \u201cI feel your pain.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(The proper response to anyone who says &#8220;I feel your pain&#8221; is &#8220;Hand me a baseball bat and I&#8217;ll validate your feelings.&#8221;)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fraudulum And so I propose the FRAUDULUM. It is the smallest unit of fraud. I define it to be the amount of fraud that is taking place when a husband tells his wife that the pants do not make her ass look fat. When you call a company and their recorded message tells you \u201cYour &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/todays-useful-word-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Today&#8217;s useful word&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-and-fall","category-words"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-uAE","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117592"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117592\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117594,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117592\/revisions\/117594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}