{"id":1208,"date":"2010-10-11T11:54:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-11T09:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ale3andro.gr\/blog\/?p=1208"},"modified":"2010-10-11T11:54:36","modified_gmt":"2010-10-11T09:54:36","slug":"welcome-maverick-meerkat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ale3andro.gr\/blog\/2010\/10\/11\/welcome-maverick-meerkat\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome, Maverick Meerkat!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3322\/4577067906_391281cb25_m.jpg\" alt=\"maverick meerkat\" width=\"240\" height=\"150\" \/>mav\u00b7er\u00b7ick<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n\u2013noun<br \/>\n1.\u00a0Southwestern U.S. an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, esp. an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother.<br \/>\n2.\u00a0a lone dissenter, as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates.<br \/>\n3.\u00a0( initial capital letter ) an electro-optically guided U.S. air-to-ground tactical missile for destroying tanks and other hardened targets at ranges up to 15 mi. (24 km).<\/p>\n<p>Origin:<br \/>\n1865\u201370, Americanism ;  after Samuel A. Maverick  (1803\u201370), Texas pioneer who left his calves unbranded<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Synonyms<br \/>\nnonconformist, independent, loner.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>meer\u00b7kat<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\n\u2013noun<br \/>\nsuricate.<br \/>\nOrigin:<br \/>\nD: lit., monkey, appar. = meer  see ( see mere2 ) + kat cat<\/p>\n<h6>from: <a title=\"dictionary.com\" href=\"http:\/\/dictionary.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Dictionary.com<\/span><\/a><\/h6>\n<h6>image from <a title=\"Maverick Meerkat image\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/mmleones\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">here<\/span><\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>mav\u00b7er\u00b7ick \u2013noun 1.\u00a0Southwestern U.S. an unbranded calf, cow, or steer, esp. an unbranded calf that is separated from its mother. 2.\u00a0a lone dissenter, as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates. 3.\u00a0( initial capital letter ) an electro-optically guided U.S. air-to-ground tactical missile for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,11,13,15],"tags":[398,409,560],"class_list":["post-1208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-internet","category-linux","category-ubuntu","tag-linux","tag-maverick-meerkat","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale3andro.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale3andro.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale3andro.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale3andro.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale3andro.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ale3andro.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1208\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ale3andro.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale3andro.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ale3andro.gr\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}