{"id":5460,"date":"2023-11-26T20:25:31","date_gmt":"2023-11-26T20:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=5460"},"modified":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T23:04:46","slug":"the-longest-word-in-english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/the-poems\/the-longest-word-in-english\/","title":{"rendered":"The Longest Word in English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Longest Word in English<br \/>\nby cricketjeff on November 30, 2014.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved<br \/>\nThe longest word in English isn&#8217;t quite what people think,<br \/>\nNo chemical for poisoning, or flavouring a drink,<br \/>\nNo silly sound that Disney used, no foolish complex term<br \/>\nLike floccinauci&#8230;ojaflop that makes a teacher squirm.<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t look to complex endings to extend a shorter stem,<br \/>\nOr search through German imports to retrieve an unknown gem.<br \/>\nIt won&#8217;t be found in Latin or from those who study Greek<br \/>\nInstead the word is known by all who ever learned to speak<br \/>\nTo find the longest English word employ more subtle wiles,<br \/>\nA mile between two esses means the longest word is SMILES!<br \/>\n Author notes<br \/>\nThe riddle and the answer are both stated in the poem!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Longest Word in English by cricketjeff on November 30, 2014.\u00a0 \u00a9 Jeff Green, All rights reserved The longest word in English isn&#8217;t quite what people think, No chemical for poisoning, or flavouring a drink, No silly sound that Disney used, no foolish complex term Like floccinauci&#8230;ojaflop that makes a teacher squirm. Don&#8217;t look to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":9742,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5460","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5460"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6048,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5460\/revisions\/6048"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicewaistcoat.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}