{"id":15984,"date":"2021-09-09T08:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=15984"},"modified":"2021-09-08T09:08:53","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T16:08:53","slug":"words-seldom-seen-bon-mot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=15984","title":{"rendered":"Words Seldom Seen: Bon mot"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Bon Mot<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noun: A witty remark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Example: “He sought to have a bon mot for every occasion.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pronunciation: This is a French phrase that literally translates as “good word” and is pronounced like many french words without most of the last letters. \/\u02ccb\u00e4n \u02c8m\u014d\/ Bo as in boy without the y and mo like in mother without the ther.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo is of Ranger Mark doing a re-enactment of Lewis or Clark shooting a muzzle loading weapon. I have video available on request. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One final word about bon mot. I have pretty much given up trying to change peoples minds with brilliant arguments, now i just try for a bon mot that is clever but not too sarcastic. I seek wit over wisdom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bon Mot Noun: A witty remark. Example: “He sought to have a bon mot for every occasion.” Pronunciation: This is a French phrase that literally translates as “good word” and is pronounced like many french words without most of the last letters. \/\u02ccb\u00e4n \u02c8m\u014d\/ Bo as in boy without the y and mo like in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15985,"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":[1056,409],"class_list":["post-15984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-words-seldom-seen","tag-bon-mot","tag-words-seldom-seen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/368CADA9-B2B5-40D1-9C0B-A9F0638E30FA_1_105_c.jpeg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-49O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984","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=15984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15991,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15984\/revisions\/15991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}