{"id":2915,"date":"2015-07-01T04:46:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T09:46:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/?p=2915"},"modified":"2015-06-30T16:37:19","modified_gmt":"2015-06-30T21:37:19","slug":"word-of-the-week-oxymoron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/word-of-the-week-oxymoron\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Week: Oxymoron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-2834\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Word-of-the-Week.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Word of the Week\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Word-of-the-Week.jpg?resize=300%2C300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Word-of-the-Week.jpg?resize=200%2C200&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Word-of-the-Week.jpg?resize=400%2C400&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Word-of-the-Week.jpg?w=742&amp;ssl=1 742w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 300%;\"><strong>Oxymoron<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This week,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/the-hectic-clans-week-june-28-2015\/\">started off with a 5K<\/a> where I was able to\u00a0<em><strong>run<\/strong><\/em><strong> slowly<\/strong> at best.<em>\u00a0<\/em>Afterwards as our\u00a0<em><strong>small crowd<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0gathered for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/the-hectic-clans-week-june-28-2015\/\">the\u00a0family photo<\/a> we were told to arrange ourselves in\u00a0<em><strong>random order<\/strong><\/em>. The photo turned out\u00a0<em><strong>awfully good<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0where we all appeared to\u00a0<em><strong>act naturally<\/strong><\/em> during the shot. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hectic-dad.com\/hectic-dad\/a-split-second\/\">Hectic 12 had a scare<\/a> during her warm-ups for the vault at YMCA Gymnastics Nationals, but ended up\u00a0<em><strong>awfully lucky<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Hectic 20 came home for his birthday, and we intended to serve\u00a0<em><strong>Jumbo shrimp<\/strong><\/em>, but I was <em><strong>clearly confused<\/strong><\/em> when he said that was his\u00a0<em><strong>least favorite<\/strong><\/em> food at the moment. My\u00a0<em><strong>deafening silence<\/strong><\/em> was broken after a\u00a0<em><strong>short wait<\/strong><\/em>. Things could have ended up\u00a0<em><strong>pretty ugly<\/strong><\/em>, but we made the\u00a0<em><strong>only choice<\/strong><\/em> and took him out to dinner. All was well with the world after that.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>So the word of the week is <b>oxymoron<\/b>. It&#8217;s a phrase\u00a0where two apparently contradictory terms appear together. Not only do they appear together, but they seem to make perfect sense despite their apparent contradiction.\u00a0We actually had a lot of fun putting together the oxymorons for the week in the Hectic Household. We had quite a few more, but several of them weren&#8217;t fit for public consumption!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxymoron This week,\u00a0started off with a 5K where I was able to\u00a0run slowly at best.\u00a0Afterwards as our\u00a0small crowd\u00a0gathered for the\u00a0family photo we were told to arrange ourselves in\u00a0random order. The photo turned out\u00a0awfully good\u00a0where we all appeared to\u00a0act naturally during the shot. 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