{"id":12389,"date":"2010-02-17T10:43:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-17T10:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wordswarm.net\/dictionary\/meretriciousness.html"},"modified":"2010-02-17T10:43:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-17T10:43:02","slug":"meretriciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/2010\/02\/17\/meretriciousness.html","title":{"rendered":"Meretriciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tDeceitful enticements.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nReading old magazines<br \/>\nwith rubber gloves and a<br \/>\ndust mask on my face<br \/>\nI feel like a postal worker at <br \/>\nRockefeller Center after the<br \/>\nanthrax attacks on<br \/>\nTom Brokaw.<\/p>\n<p>So much text,<br \/>\ninch after inch of <br \/>\ncackling effluvia,<br \/>\nformatted for distraction and<br \/>\nknowing physical comedy,<br \/>\na taut anecdote <br \/>\n(scooped from a<br \/>\n300-page memoir)<br \/>\nstuffed in the <br \/>\ncorner of a 3,000-word <br \/>\nprofile of the<br \/>\nforgotten dilettante who<br \/>\nfooled his peers with the<br \/>\ngenius schtick.<\/p>\n<p>The un-verified anecdote <br \/>\nsupports the wordful mass<br \/>\nlike a crutch,<br \/>\nthat little slip of words <br \/>\nholds the magazine together <br \/>\nso the porous future can<br \/>\nquestion and disprove the<br \/>\neditorial chicanery that<br \/>\nheld a generation by its<br \/>\ngossamer-thick attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tReading old magazines with rubber gloves and a dust mask on my face.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whats-the-word","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paumAn-3dP","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12389\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wsbj.com\/sorabji\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}