{"id":812,"date":"2008-04-28T18:29:31","date_gmt":"2008-04-28T18:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=812"},"modified":"2008-04-28T18:29:31","modified_gmt":"2008-04-28T18:29:31","slug":"vocabulary:-to-palter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=812","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary: to Palter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Verb: Palter<\/p>\n<p>Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I remember a college professor once told me that if there&#39;s something he couldn&#39;t explain, he would try to throw in big words to make it sound confusing and get away with it.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this is not the example I would follow as funny as it may sound. I would not palter with those who earnestly seek after the truth.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[@more@]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Verb: Palter Be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information &nbsp; I remember a college professor once told me that if there&#39;s something he couldn&#39;t explain, he would try to throw in big words to make &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/?p=812\">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-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabularies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","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=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nycphantom.com\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}