{"id":749,"date":"2012-12-15T01:10:44","date_gmt":"2012-12-15T09:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2013-01-15T11:16:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T19:16:45","slug":"missing-words-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/missing-words-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Words II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We need a word that means almost the same thing as <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/sellout\">sellout<\/a><\/em> (in the sense of &quot;a person who compromises their principles for financial gain&quot;), but conveys the idea that the problem is not selling out, but selling out <em>for too low of a price<\/em>. We all have to make trade-offs; there isn't any one principle that takes lexical priority over every other valuable thing in life: sometimes it makes sense to compromise your ideals in exchange for money or power or fame or fitting in.<\/p>\n<p>But you could at least <em>haggle<\/em>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need a word that means almost the same thing as sellout (in the sense of &quot;a person who compromises their principles for financial gain&quot;), but conveys the idea that the problem is not selling out, but selling out for &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/2012\/12\/missing-words-ii\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[55],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":854,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/zackmdavis.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}