{"id":3379,"date":"2003-06-20T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-20T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2003\/06\/20\/word-of-the-fucking-life\/"},"modified":"2003-06-20T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-20T23:12:00","slug":"word-of-the-fucking-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2003\/06\/20\/word-of-the-fucking-life\/","title":{"rendered":"word of the fucking life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>crescendo <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>t noun 1<\/strong> (PL. <strong>crescendos <\/strong>or <strong>crescendi <\/strong>) Music a gradual increase in loudness in a piece of music.<\/p>\n<p>n Music a passage of music marked or performed in this way. n the loudest point reached in a gradually increasing sound: <em>the port engine revs rose to a crescendo<\/em>. n a progressive increase in force or intensity:<em> a crescendo of misery<\/em>. n the most intense point reached in this; a climax:<em> the hysteria reached a crescendo around the spring festival.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>t adverb &#038; adjective Music with a gradual increase in loudness: [as ADJ.]<em> a short crescendo kettledrum roll.<\/em><br \/>\nt verb (-oes, -oed) [no OBJ.] increase in loudness or intensity: <em>the reluctant cheers began to crescendo.<\/em><br \/>\n\u2014ORIGIN late 18th cent.: Italian, present participle of <em>crescere <\/em>&#8216;to increase&#8217;, from Latin <em>crescere <\/em>&#8216;grow&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>crescendo t noun 1 (PL. crescendos or crescendi ) Music a gradual increase in loudness in a piece of music. n Music a passage of music marked or performed in this way. n the loudest point reached in a gradually increasing sound: the port engine revs rose to a crescendo. n a progressive increase in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/2003\/06\/20\/word-of-the-fucking-life\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;word of the fucking life&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davebushe.net\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}