{"id":954,"date":"2006-06-08T17:08:53","date_gmt":"2006-06-08T17:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groonk.net\/bits\/?p=954"},"modified":"2006-06-08T17:08:53","modified_gmt":"2006-06-08T17:08:53","slug":"groonkly-bit-now-with-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/?p=954","title":{"rendered":"Groonkly Bit: Now with Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Time to evolve:<\/p>\n<div class=\"blocked\">\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>Word of the Day<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>mire (noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb)[mier]<\/p>\n<p>noun<br \/>\n1. moist, spongy earth; a bog<br \/>\n2. deep mud: &#8220;We felt the front wheels of our truck sink into the mire.&#8221;<br \/>\n3. an undesireable situation; a predicament; &#8216;the mire of poverty&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>transitive verb<br \/>\n4. to weigh down<br \/>\n5. to soil with mud or dirt<\/p>\n<p>intransitive verb<br \/>\n6. to sink or become stuck in mud<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><strong>Origin<\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Approximately 1300; from Old Norse, &#8216;myrr&#8217;: bog, swamp; related to Old English, &#8216;mos&#8217;: bog. <\/p><\/div>\n<p>To be <u>mire<\/u>d in self-doubt and overthought is to dig a little bit of your own grave every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to evolve: Word of the Day mire (noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb)[mier] noun 1. moist, spongy earth; a bog 2. deep mud: &#8220;We felt the front wheels of our truck sink into the mire.&#8221; 3. an undesireable situation; a predicament; &#8216;the mire of poverty&#8217; transitive verb 4. to weigh down 5. to soil with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.groonk.net\/bits\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}