{"id":14729,"date":"2020-08-05T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=14729"},"modified":"2020-07-01T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T21:59:14","slug":"words-seldom-seen-mot-juste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=14729","title":{"rendered":"Words Seldom Seen: Mot Juste"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Mot juste<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mot juste, noun: The exact or appropriate word or words. It is a French phrase sometimes used in English to signal literacy and that you have found the perfect word. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Example: “Train wreck in slow motion” is the mot juste for what is happening to the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The photo is from our trip down the Grand Canyon in June 2004. One of the last trips when I used my Canon camera before switching to exclusively the iPhone camera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Mot juste” was encountered in the introduction to Meditations<\/a> by Marcus Aurelius, translation and introduction by Greg Hayes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mot juste Mot juste, noun: The exact or appropriate word or words. It is a French phrase sometimes used in English to signal literacy and that you have found the perfect word. Example: “Train wreck in slow motion” is the mot juste for what is happening to the economy. The photo is from our trip […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_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_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[408],"tags":[843,443,409],"class_list":["post-14729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-words-seldom-seen","tag-french","tag-grand-canyon","tag-words-seldom-seen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/C87D8D05-B282-4A3B-A573-16EF6191B733_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=1025%2C767&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-3Pz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14729"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14731,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14729\/revisions\/14731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}