{"id":1984,"date":"2011-03-01T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2011-03-01T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=1984"},"modified":"2015-08-28T11:44:37","modified_gmt":"2015-08-28T15:44:37","slug":"todays-word-gravamen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2011\/03\/01\/todays-word-gravamen\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s word: gravamen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I learned a new word today. It is &ldquo;gravamen.&rdquo; It is from the Latin &ldquo;gravare,&rdquo; &ldquo;to weigh down,&rdquo; so literally it means &ldquo;that which is heaviest.&rdquo; It is a legal term <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gravamen\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/<wbr><\/wbr>Gravamen<\/a> that refers to the most serious part of a suit against someone and\/or the basis of a lawsuit. Its extended, non-judicial meaning is &ldquo;the essence of an objection,&rdquo; as in, &ldquo;My gravamen against your character is that you are flagitious!!&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I learned a new word today. It is &ldquo;gravamen.&rdquo; It is from the Latin &ldquo;gravare,&rdquo; &ldquo;to weigh down,&rdquo; so literally it means &ldquo;that which is heaviest.&rdquo; It is a legal term http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gravamen that refers to the most serious part of a suit against someone and\/or the basis of a lawsuit. Its extended, non-judicial meaning is&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2011\/03\/01\/todays-word-gravamen\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today\u2019s word: gravamen<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[639],"class_list":["post-1984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1984"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6262,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1984\/revisions\/6262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}