﻿{"id":18494,"date":"2015-11-03T11:10:58","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T10:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18494"},"modified":"2015-11-03T11:10:58","modified_gmt":"2015-11-03T10:10:58","slug":"word-of-the-day-pabulum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=18494","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: pabulum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States, former Florida governor Jeb Bush is really struggling to make an impact in his effort to become the Republican candidate in next year&#8217;s presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>In an attempt to revive his campaign, he has gone on the attack in relation to his rivals, declaring: &#8220;The campaign trail is littered with candidates disguised as television critics. Politicians echoing poll-tested pabulum.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I wonder how many American voters know what the word &#8220;pabulum&#8221; means?!? I had to look it up. Apparently it means &#8220;bland or insipid intellectual fare&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States, former Florida governor Jeb Bush is really struggling to make an impact in his effort to become the Republican candidate in next year&#8217;s presidential election. In an attempt to revive his campaign, he has gone on the attack in relation to his rivals, declaring: &#8220;The campaign trail is littered with candidates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-us-current-affairs","category-cultural-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18494","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=18494"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18496,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18494\/revisions\/18496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}