{"id":2299,"date":"2022-04-15T16:26:25","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T23:26:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/?p=2299"},"modified":"2022-04-15T17:10:33","modified_gmt":"2022-04-16T00:10:33","slug":"better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2022\/04\/15\/better\/","title":{"rendered":"Better"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When I finally consented, two decades ago, to using the necessary phrase &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.psychologytoday.com\/us\/blog\/between-the-generations\/202109\/18-signs-youre-dealing-passive-aggressive-person\">passive aggressive<\/a>,&#8221; I felt awful, and beaten, like I had fallen off the wagon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But I am clean again! A dear friend employed the phrase <em>defensive envenomater<\/em> this fine afternoon to describe a snake that doesn&#8217;t seek to introduce sickening venom into its prey but nonetheless<em> <\/em>will when forced into a particularly vulnerable posture. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Defensive envenomater<\/em> is better than &#8220;passive aggressive person&#8221; for many reasons (I won&#8217;t be pedantic and spell them all out), though I know it replaces only some of the latter phrase&#8217;s meanings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I also prefer the noun phrase to an adjective phrase; I like a person to blame.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\">(<em>h\/t MH<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I finally consented, two decades ago, to using the necessary phrase &#8220;passive aggressive,&#8221; I felt awful, and beaten, like I had fallen off the wagon. But I am clean again! A dear friend employed the phrase defensive envenomater this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/2022\/04\/15\/better\/\">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":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[86],"class_list":["post-2299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-roberts-posts","tag-relationship"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2299"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2304,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2299\/revisions\/2304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nocontest.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}