{"id":66043,"date":"2018-04-03T00:09:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=66043"},"modified":"2018-04-03T00:09:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T07:09:00","slug":"shes-a-virago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/66043","title":{"rendered":"She&#8217;s a virago!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Virago:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong>origin and etymology:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Middle English, from Latin\u00a0<em>viragin-, virago<\/em>, from\u00a0<em>vir<\/em>\u00a0man<\/p>\n<p><strong>definition:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Plural:<\/em>\u00a0<strong>viragoes<\/strong>\u00a0<em>or<\/em>\u00a0<strong>viragos<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>a loud, overbearing woman<\/li>\n<li>a woman of great stature, strength, and courage<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Mixed messages, anyone? While once considered a compliment (one famous virago being Joan of Arc), it later became more of a slur or derogatory comment (think <em>Taming of the Shrew\u2019s<\/em> very own shrew). Now it\u2019s trending more towards the complimentary once again. Is there a virago in your farmgirl life?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_66044\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-66044\" class=\"wp-image-66044\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/474px-Wonder_Woman_Lynda_Carter.jpg\" width=\"360\" height=\"455\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-66044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Wonder Woman Lynda Carter, Photo by ABC Television via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virago: origin and etymology: Middle English, from Latin\u00a0viragin-, virago, from\u00a0vir\u00a0man definition: Plural:\u00a0viragoes\u00a0or\u00a0viragos a loud, overbearing woman a woman of great stature, strength, and courage Mixed messages, anyone? While once considered a compliment (one famous virago being Joan of Arc), it &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/66043\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/66043\">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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}