{"id":284,"date":"2004-10-06T12:54:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-06T10:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/2004\/10\/another_great_w.html"},"modified":"2004-10-06T12:54:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-06T10:54:00","slug":"another_great_w","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/2004\/10\/06\/another_great_w\/","title":{"rendered":"another great word i&#8217;ll never (hopefully) get to use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word of the day on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordspy.com\" title=\"wordspy\" target=\"_blank\">WordSpy<\/a>: gossypiboma.  It&#8217;s the <i>official<\/i> term for a sponge left inside a patient&#8217;s body after a surgical procedure.  Because &#8220;sponge&#8221; was too obvious, apparently, for the medical profession.  Probably my favorite thing about the word &#8211; aside from how fun it is to say, and the fact that it sounds more like a teenage girl&#8217;s pastime than anything hippocratic, is that its etymological roots are Latin and <i>Swahili<\/i>.  There just aren&#8217;t enough words in the English language that are based on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cis.yale.edu:80\/swahili\/\" title=\"learn swahili!\"  target=\"_blank\">Swahili<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On a barely related tangent, Swahili is one of the many languages in which I know how to say &#8220;I love you&#8221;. For those who are curious:  <i>nakupenda sana<\/i> (technically, that&#8217;s &#8220;I love you very much&#8221;, but you get the picture).<\/p>\n<p>This concludes your rambling and pointless entry for today.  I would have remarked on the vice-presidential debate (and, for that matter, on last week&#8217;s presidential one), but I&#8217;m ashamed to admit that I gave up watching Edwards v. Cheney last night after about ten minutes.  It was going nowhere pretty, and I stand by my decision to spend that time in the kitchen, cooking and drinking wine.  Besides, I do try to (except when <a href=\"http:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/archives\/000275.shtml#000275\" title=\"hooray for incoherent drunken political rants!\" target=\"_blank\">drunk and angry at 4 in the morning<\/a>) stick to my self-imposed rule of no politics in the blog is good politics in the blog.  Kind of like punk.  Only more annoying and self-absorbed.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s word of the day on WordSpy: gossypiboma. It&#8217;s the official term for a sponge left inside a patient&#8217;s body&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/custom-deluxe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}