{"id":1689,"date":"2010-05-14T15:38:34","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T15:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2010-05-14T15:38:34","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T15:38:34","slug":"superfluous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1689","title":{"rendered":"Superfluous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n1. Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being\n<\/p>\n<p>\n2. More than is needed, desired, or required\n<\/p>\n<p>\nDefinition by WordWeb\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI used &quot;snake-oiling&quot; in a conversation with a printer toner salesperson once, I did find snake-oil as too harsh of a term, so superfluous is a good substitute.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThanks to John Calvin's Commentary in English translation, I have much much English vocabularies to learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Serving no useful purpose; having no excuse for being 2. More than is needed, desired, or required Definition by WordWeb I used &quot;snake-oiling&quot; in a conversation with a printer toner salesperson once, I did find snake-oil as too harsh &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=1689\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabularies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}