{"id":8438,"date":"2012-04-16T16:33:08","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8438"},"modified":"2012-04-16T16:35:08","modified_gmt":"2012-04-16T15:35:08","slug":"word-of-the-day-augean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=8438","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: augean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been having an e-mail exchange with an Indian political commentator about reform of the Indian political system [see my guide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/Indianpoliticalsystem.html\">here<\/a>]. She used the word &#8216;augean&#8217; and I was impressed that an indian used an English word which I had to look up.<\/p>\n<p>The adjective refers to a task which is both hugely unpleasant and extremely difficult &#8211; originally the fifth labour of Heracles in Greek mythology [see <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Augeas\">here<\/a>] and, in the context of her e-mail, changing the the Indian political system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve recently been having an e-mail exchange with an Indian political commentator about reform of the Indian political system [see my guide here]. She used the word &#8216;augean&#8217; and I was impressed that an indian used an English word which I had to look up. The adjective refers to a task which is both hugely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438","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=8438"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8445,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8438\/revisions\/8445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}