{"id":7756,"date":"2016-07-16T09:35:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T16:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=7756"},"modified":"2017-06-25T19:53:38","modified_gmt":"2017-06-25T19:53:38","slug":"sometimes-a-cigar-is-just-an-amazing-cigar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2016\/07\/16\/sometimes-a-cigar-is-just-an-amazing-cigar\/","title":{"rendered":"amazing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingpointsmemo.com\/livewire\/trump-introduces-pence-vp-pick\">Sara Jerde<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As the two shook hands on stage, the microphone picked up Pence telling Trump, &#8220;You&#8217;re amazing.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.etymonline.com\/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&#038;search=amazing\">Etymonline<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>amazing (adj.)<\/strong> early 15c., &#8220;stupefactive;&#8221; 1590s, &#8220;dreadful;&#8221; present participle adjective from amaze. Sense of &#8220;wonderful&#8221; is recorded from 1704. Related: Amazingly.<\/p>\n<p><strong>amaze (v.)<\/strong> early 13c., amasian &#8220;stupefy, make crazy,&#8221; from a-, probably used here as an intensive prefix, + -masian, related to maze (q.v.). Sense of &#8220;overwhelm with wonder&#8221; is from 1580s. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>postscript<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>june 25, 2017<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattyglesias\/status\/879059303033970689\">Matt Yglesias<\/a>: &#8220;Trump has taught Republicans that even unsubtle, clearly false lies can be sound political strategy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sara Jerde: As the two shook hands on stage, the microphone picked up Pence telling Trump, &#8220;You&#8217;re amazing.&#8221; Etymonline: amazing (adj.) early 15c., &#8220;stupefactive;&#8221; 1590s, &#8220;dreadful;&#8221; present participle adjective from amaze. Sense of &#8220;wonderful&#8221; is recorded from 1704. Related: Amazingly. amaze (v.) early 13c., amasian &#8220;stupefy, make crazy,&#8221; from a-, probably used here as an&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8195,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7756\/revisions\/8195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}