{"id":549,"date":"2006-05-16T23:39:11","date_gmt":"2006-05-17T03:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/16\/new-words-today\/"},"modified":"2006-05-16T23:39:11","modified_gmt":"2006-05-17T03:39:11","slug":"new-words-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/16\/new-words-today\/","title":{"rendered":"New words today."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At the risk of showing some people how a certain trick was done, I present some lovely new words I learned today from &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.andreas.com\/fremword.html\">A Few of My Favorite Words<\/a>&#8221; page at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andreas.com\/index.html\">andreas.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Wabi<\/strong>: Japanese noun. A flaw that gives elegance and uniqueness to the whole. Western culture sees beauty in mass produced technical symmetry, such as a Porsche Boxster. Japanese however appreciate the wabi of a cracked tea cup that distinguishes it from all other tea cups. This can be as simple as the tiny crack in one&#8217;s favorite cup. It can also be handmade books or dinners that you&#8217;ve made from scratch. Everyone&#8217;s face has wabi.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harikuyo<\/strong>: Japanese noun. It once meant &#8220;the shrine of broken needles&#8221; where one kept and respected the broken things that have served one. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Mokita<\/strong>: New Guinea noun. The truth that everyone knows but no one admits. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lots more at the page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">At the risk of showing some people how a certain trick was done, I present some lovely new words I learned today from &#8220;A Few of My Favorite Words&#8221; page at andreas.com: Wabi: Japanese noun. A flaw that gives elegance and uniqueness to the whole. Western culture sees beauty in mass produced technical symmetry, such as a Porsche Boxster. Japanese&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2006\/05\/16\/new-words-today\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-8R","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}