{"id":4776,"date":"2025-09-05T08:13:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:13:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=4776"},"modified":"2025-09-06T15:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T14:42:05","slug":"meerkat-prompts-giving-up-a-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=4776","title":{"rendered":"Meerkat Prompts: Giving up a Word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p>If you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be?<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Am I guilty of over-using any particular words? Probably. With a lot of internal work emails, I start out with a &#8216;howdy&#8217;. I don&#8217;t know how I came to use howdy instead of hi or hello, but somehow I am a howdy person. It would be easy enough to give up, though I rather like using howdy. It&#8217;s a little different to the norm in these parts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other than that, I don&#8217;t even know what words I regularly use, aside from the stuff that everyone uses in their daily lives. I can&#8217;t easily give up using the word, &#8216;the&#8217;! That would be tricky. It would also make for some potentially weird sentences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wish I could spin this prompt into a larger post, but I cannot find the words (heh) to do so. I guess if I had to, I&#8217;d give up my howdys, but not today!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=122\">Back to Meerkat Prompts<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you had to give up one word that you use regularly, what would it be? Am I guilty of over-using any particular words? Probably. With a lot of internal work emails, I start&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[72,167,15],"class_list":["post-4776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-prompts","tag-dailyprompt","tag-dailyprompt-2052","tag-random-prompts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/a-handsome-anthropomorphic-meerkat-looking-stressed-out-as-a-cartoon.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4779,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4776\/revisions\/4779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}