{"id":18015,"date":"2015-08-20T13:49:22","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T12:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18015"},"modified":"2015-08-20T15:30:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T14:30:44","slug":"word-of-the-day-myrmidon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18015","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: myrmidon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word means &#8216;a person who executes without question or scruple a master&#8217;s commands&#8217;. \u00a0It comes from the name of a character in Greek mythology.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">It&#8217;s a new word for me and I came across it in the book I&#8217;m reading at the moment: <\/span><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/B0053UTIOG?keywords=%26%2334%3BThe%20Storm%20Of%20War%26%2334%3B&amp;qid=1439560769&amp;ref_=sr_1_8&amp;s=books&amp;sr=1-8\">&#8220;The Storm Of War&#8221;<\/a><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">, an account of the Second World War by Andrew Roberts. In this context, Roberts uses to word to\u00a0<\/span>describe<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0those who blindly\u00a0<\/span>followed<span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">\u00a0the orders and wishes of the Fuhrer Adolf Hitler.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word means &#8216;a person who executes without question or scruple a master&#8217;s commands&#8217;. \u00a0It comes from the name of a character in Greek mythology. It&#8217;s a new word for me and I came across it in the book I&#8217;m reading at the moment: &#8220;The Storm Of War&#8221;, an account of the Second World War [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18015"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18020,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18015\/revisions\/18020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}