{"id":1834,"date":"2024-02-11T16:25:21","date_gmt":"2024-02-11T16:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=1834"},"modified":"2025-08-21T19:48:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T19:48:14","slug":"word-smithy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2024\/02\/11\/word-smithy\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Smithy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"420\" height=\"294\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bvv.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1835\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bvv.webp 420w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bvv-300x210.webp 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-d18074c03478d65267ba4c7f1d3f88fa\">Just vocabulary oddities seen here from time to time. <br><br>What a time to be an astronaut. Money is flowing because someone has a hobby with space&#8230; enter Elon Musk. <br><br>I come to a crossroad sometimes. I don&#8217;t generally use swear words in my speech or writings. It seems that the new social norm is to swear all the time. For the ladies? It is not attractive. I get anxiety built up and feel like I could explode.  I may do a test to see how much traffic is drawn to the negative writings.<br><br> As a Christian, when I start speaking on that, people are lost yet feel offended by a truth I find quite valid and irrefutable. I am in a total minority, still subjected to persecution and ridicule. With everything that is on the plate at the time&#8230; I will hold the course as I ponder to go deeper into the hard mechanics of Greg Maxwell.<br><br>I prayed for you today. <br><br> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just vocabulary oddities seen here from time to time. What a time to be an astronaut. Money is flowing because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/bs.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1834"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1834\/revisions\/1837"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}