{"id":843,"date":"2015-07-08T22:08:42","date_gmt":"2015-07-09T05:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2017-09-03T23:21:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T06:21:20","slug":"leaving-a-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"Leaving a Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-844 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fecollate001.jpg?resize=625%2C234&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"fecollate001\" width=\"625\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fecollate001.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fecollate001.jpg?resize=300%2C113&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/fecollate001.jpg?resize=500%2C188&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As we age, our thoughts often drift to hopes\u00c2\u00a0of leaving the Earth a better place than we have found it\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwistful dreams\u00c2\u00a0of establishing\u00c2\u00a0a legacy that cements our place in the masonry of history. Most find ourselves flitting through life seeking that purpose, searching for a grand reason. Few of us stumble upon the roots of that glorious edifice awaiting our illustrious direction. Today I unearthed that seed, I experienced a brief glimpse of my lasting legacy. I coined the term &#8220;fecollate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Fecollate<\/strong> | fee-<span class=\"dbox-bold\">koh<\/span>-leyt | <em>verb [ no obj. ]<\/em> expel large unsavory quantities of feces from the body. similar to defecate, but more disgusting. predominately used as a tasteful way of describing a most distasteful excretion of solids and fluids.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\">Derivatives<br \/>\nfecollation \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0| fee-<span class=\"dbox-bold\">koh<\/span>-ley-shen |\u00c2\u00a0<em>noun<\/em><br \/>\nfecollator \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0| fee-<span class=\"dbox-bold\">koh<\/span>-ley-tor |\u00c2\u00a0<em>noun<\/em><br \/>\nfecollatory \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0| fee-<span class=\"dbox-bold\">koh<\/span>-ley-tory |\u00c2\u00a0<em>adj.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\">Origin<br \/>\nearly 21st century, a neologism created to pompously describe the excretions of an elephant upon a fornicating couple used as an example while\u00c2\u00a0discussing the merits of censorship. No other term carried the appropriate gravitas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; padding-left: 30px;\">Sample sentence<br \/>\nDonald Trump spat out his thoughts and verbally fecollated upon the audience.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">My destiny has been discovered. I must assure that this most useful and delicate of terms become an integral\u00c2\u00a0part of the\u00c2\u00a0lexicon. It must find its way into the dictionary alongside other\u00c2\u00a0mellifluous\u00c2\u00a0neologisms such\u00c2\u00a0as &#8220;bling-bling&#8221;, &#8220;cray&#8221;, &#8220;selfie&#8221;, and &#8220;YOLO.&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0This is to be my indelible mark on history. Thus, I turn to you all. Become a part of history. Weave your fecollations into conversations, become a purveyor of fecollate. The Earth will thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As we age, our thoughts often drift to hopes\u00c2\u00a0of leaving the Earth a better place than we have found it\u00e2\u20ac\u201dwistful dreams\u00c2\u00a0of establishing\u00c2\u00a0a legacy that cements our place in the masonry of history. Most find ourselves flitting through life seeking that purpose, searching for a grand reason. Few of us stumble upon the roots of that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[263,1],"tags":[346,343,344,339,341,340,347,345,342],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}