{"id":42566,"date":"2021-11-20T23:25:32","date_gmt":"2021-11-20T23:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=42566"},"modified":"2021-11-20T23:25:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-20T23:25:33","slug":"vocabulary-brinkmanship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/vocabulary-brinkmanship\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary: brinkmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions <em>brinkmanship<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<p>\n<span style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:20px\">\nbrinkmanship:<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>willingness to risk a worse outcome than losing the game would be, in order to win the game.<\/p>\n<p>Brinkmanship is a word I heard more often in the 80s than today. It usually described a country&#8217;s stance in an international negotiation. However, it also occurs in sports: for instance, a player might risk injury to make a spectacular play.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/topic\/brinkmanship\">britannica.com<\/a><\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions brinkmanship. brinkmanship: willingness to risk a worse outcome than losing the game would be, in order to win the game. Brinkmanship is a word I heard more often in the 80s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/vocabulary-brinkmanship\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vocabulary: brinkmanship<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2825],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42566"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42568,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42566\/revisions\/42568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}