{"id":14754,"date":"2021-01-05T21:23:08","date_gmt":"2021-01-05T21:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14754"},"modified":"2021-01-05T21:45:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-05T21:45:57","slug":"pense-the-pale-prince-of-pretense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14754","title":{"rendered":"Pense the Pale Prince of Pretense&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-0 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mouche_verte_dos.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14760\" width=\"NaN\" height=\"NaN\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mouche_verte_dos.jpg 408w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mouche_verte_dos-300x256.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 408px) 85vw, 408px\" \/><figcaption>It has not been determined whether this is the Pense fly but it sure is pretty.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Etymology <\/em> :From\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Middle_English\">Middle English<\/a>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/flye#Middle_English\">flye<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/flie#Middle_English\">flie<\/a><\/em>, from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Old_English\">Old English<\/a>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/flyge#Old_English\">fl\u0233\u0121e<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/fleoge#Old_English\">fl\u0113oge<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(\u201ca fly\u201d), from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proto-Germanic_language\">Proto-Germanic<\/a>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic\/fleug%C7%AD\">*fleug\u01ed<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(\u201ca fly\u201d), from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Proto-Indo-European_language\">Proto-Indo-European<\/a>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European\/plewk-\">*plewk-<\/a><\/em>\u00a0(\u201cto fly\u201d). Cognate with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scots_language\">Scots<\/a>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/flee#Scots\">flee<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saterland_Frisian_language\">Saterland Frisian<\/a>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Fljooge#Saterland_Frisian\">Fljooge<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dutch_language\">Dutch<\/a>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/vlieg#Dutch\">vlieg<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Low_German\">German Low German<\/a>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Fleeg#German_Low_German\">Fleeg<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/German_language\">German<\/a>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/Fliege#German\">Fliege<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Danish_language\">Danish<\/a>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/flue#Danish\">flue<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bokm%C3%A5l\">Norwegian Bokm\u00e5l<\/a>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/flue#Norwegian_Bokm%C3%A5l\">flue<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nynorsk\">Norwegian Nynorsk<\/a>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/fluge#Norwegian_Nynorsk\">fluge<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Swedish_language\">Swedish<\/a>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/fluga#Swedish\">fluga<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Icelandic_language\">Icelandic<\/a>\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/fluga#Icelandic\">fluga<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Pale-prince-pense.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14771\" width=\"609\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Pale-prince-pense.jpg 609w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Pale-prince-pense-203x300.jpg 203w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;<strong>We saw <\/strong>a weird moment when a fly landed on Pence\u2019s snow-white hair\u2014and the vice president did not react at all. No doubt, it\u2019s a conundrum, what to do in such a situation. If Pence had shooed the fly and the fly had refused to shoo, that would have been bad. So he did nothing. And that doing nothing somehow in one powerful visual moment concentrated everything. It symbolized the whole Pence vice presidency, the determined, willful refusal to acknowledge the most blaring and glaring negative realities. Through all of the scandals and the crimes and the disasters of the past four years, Mike Pence was the man who pretended not to notice. And now there was a fly on his head, and he pretended not to notice that too.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Excerpted <\/strong>from <em>Ideas <\/em>Atlantic article by David Frum <em>The Man Who Pretended Not to Notice <\/em>A fly landed on Mike Pence\u2019s head. And he did nothing. October 8, 2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Court-Painter-Pale-prince.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14767\" width=\"1000\" height=\"725\" srcset=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Court-Painter-Pale-prince.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Court-Painter-Pale-prince-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Court-Painter-Pale-prince-768x557.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Etymology :From\u00a0Middle English\u00a0flye,\u00a0flie, from\u00a0Old English\u00a0fl\u0233\u0121e,\u00a0fl\u0113oge\u00a0(\u201ca fly\u201d), from\u00a0Proto-Germanic\u00a0*fleug\u01ed\u00a0(\u201ca fly\u201d), from\u00a0Proto-Indo-European\u00a0*plewk-\u00a0(\u201cto fly\u201d). Cognate with\u00a0Scots\u00a0flee,\u00a0Saterland Frisian\u00a0Fljooge,\u00a0Dutch\u00a0vlieg,\u00a0German Low German\u00a0Fleeg,\u00a0German\u00a0Fliege,\u00a0Danish\u00a0flue,\u00a0Norwegian Bokm\u00e5l\u00a0flue,\u00a0Norwegian Nynorsk\u00a0fluge,\u00a0Swedish\u00a0fluga,\u00a0Icelandic\u00a0fluga. &#8220;We saw a weird moment when a fly landed on Pence\u2019s snow-white hair\u2014and the vice president did not react at all. No doubt, it\u2019s a conundrum, what to do in such a situation. If Pence had shooed the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/?p=14754\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pense the Pale Prince of Pretense&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-images","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14754"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19963,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14754\/revisions\/19963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allanhardingmackay.ca\/courtpainter\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}