{"id":6,"date":"2025-09-29T18:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bierceism.org\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2025-10-01T08:43:33","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T13:43:33","slug":"bierceism-is","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bierceism.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Bierceism, n: The practice of expressing oneself lexicographically."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"6\" class=\"elementor elementor-6\" data-elementor-post-type=\"page\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f510c90 e-grid e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"f510c90\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-22590b0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"22590b0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bierceism.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/elementor\/thumbs\/Collected_Works_-_Volume_01_-_Ambrose_Bierce_in_1896-1-rchdc7i3m5a2zk5ir5y08ndd3b6ylnzuve7ofmp8ts.png\" title=\"Collected_Works_-_Volume_01_-_Ambrose_Bierce_in_1896\" alt=\"Collected_Works_-_Volume_01_-_Ambrose_Bierce_in_1896\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1b6f274 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"1b6f274\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><b>Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce<\/b> (June 24, 1842 \u2013 <abbr title=\"circa\">c.<\/abbr>\u20091914) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran. His book <i>The Devil&#8217;s Dictionary<\/i> was named one of &#8220;The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature&#8221; by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. His story &#8220;An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge&#8221; has been described as &#8220;one of the most famous and frequently anthologized stories in American literature&#8221;, and his book <i>Tales of Soldiers and Civilians<\/i> (also published as <i>In the Midst of Life<\/i>) was named by the Grolier Club one of the 100 most influential American books printed before 1900.<sup id=\"cite_ref-6\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>from Wikipedia<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-17a2a38 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"17a2a38\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce (June 24, 1842 \u2013 c.\u20091914) was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran. His book The Devil&#8217;s Dictionary was named one of &#8220;The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Literature&#8221; by the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration. His story &#8220;An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge&#8221; has been described as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bierceism.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bierceism.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bierceism.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bierceism.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bierceism.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bierceism.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/bierceism.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bierceism.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}