{"id":145,"date":"2020-03-05T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2020\/03\/05\/how-do-i-get-to-insouciance\/"},"modified":"2020-03-05T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T09:00:00","slug":"how-do-i-get-to-insouciance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2020\/03\/05\/how-do-i-get-to-insouciance\/","title":{"rendered":"How do I get to insouciance?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I subscribe to an email newsletter called <i>Word Genius<\/i>. A few days a week, it sends a word with its definition and examples in a sentence. As I&#8217;ve noted in another blog, when I was a little girl, the other little girls in my neighborhood loved to bully me for reading, and liked to call me the <i>Big Word Mama<\/i> as an insult. So be it.<\/p>\n<p>A word this week was <b>Insouciance<\/b>. It means <i>Casual lack of concern; indifference<\/i> or <i>Cheerful feeling with no worries<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Two examples of <i>Insouciance<\/i> in a sentence:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I admire my partner\u2019s insouciance toward traffic and other things that annoy me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On the last day of school, the children ran out of the building, riding high with insouciance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have decided that it&#8217;s not <i>ignorance<\/i> that&#8217;s bliss. It&#8217;s <i>insouciance<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>And I long to feel blissful&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Also see:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/jayneblawg.blogspot.com\/2020\/01\/not-anodyne.html\">not anodyne<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I subscribe to an email newsletter called Word Genius. A few days a week, it sends a word with its definition and examples in a sentence. As I&#8217;ve noted in another blog, when I was a little girl, the other little girls in my neighborhood loved to bully me for reading, and liked to call [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}