{"id":19577,"date":"2025-02-14T13:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T20:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=19577"},"modified":"2025-01-31T13:33:23","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T20:33:23","slug":"words-seldom-seen-ad-hominem-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?p=19577","title":{"rendered":"Words Seldom Seen: Ad hominem"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0201.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" data-attachment-id=\"19571\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/?attachment_id=19571\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0201.jpg?fit=1500%2C1125&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1500,1125\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;4.5&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;Canon PowerShot S90&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1293221825&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;6&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.002&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"IMG_0201\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0201.jpg?fit=700%2C525&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0201.jpg?resize=700%2C525&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19571\" style=\"width:545px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0201.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0201.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0201.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0201.jpg?w=1500&amp;ssl=1 1500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0201.jpg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-large-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ad hominem<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Adjective: An argument directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Example: &#8220;The ad hominem attack against the candidate ignored the facts entirely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pronunciation: ad ho\u00b7mi\u00b7nem <a href=\"https:\/\/www.howtopronounce.com\/ad-hominem\">Hear it here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Photo is the Awanee Hotel in Yosemite in December 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ad hominem Adjective: An argument directed against a person rather than the position they are maintaining. Example: &#8220;The ad hominem attack against the candidate ignored the facts entirely. Pronunciation: ad ho\u00b7mi\u00b7nem Hear it here Photo is the Awanee Hotel in Yosemite in December 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19571,"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":[19,408],"tags":[876,314,409,249],"class_list":["post-19577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","category-words-seldom-seen","tag-ad-hominem","tag-travel","tag-words-seldom-seen","tag-yosemite"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/simonburrow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_0201.jpg?fit=1500%2C1125&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p99jGb-55L","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19577","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=19577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19578,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19577\/revisions\/19578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simonburrow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}