{"id":1498,"date":"2003-10-19T23:33:04","date_gmt":"2003-10-20T03:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/example.org\/words_i_wish_id"},"modified":"2003-10-19T23:33:04","modified_gmt":"2003-10-20T03:33:04","slug":"words_i_wish_id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"Words I wish I&#8217;d thought of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordspy.com\/words\/protirement.asp\"><strong>Protirement<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n(proh.TYR.munt) n. Retiring or quitting an unattractive job to pursue work or hobbies more suited to one&#8217;s personality. Also: pro-tirement.<br \/>\n\u2014protire v.\n<\/p>\n<p>In his recent comment on <a href=\"http:\/\/ripples.typepad.com\/ripples\/2003\/10\/working_cats.html\">Working Cats<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/fragmentsfromfloyd.com\">fredf<\/a> introduced me to two more new words: ergo-cat and edenization. <\/p>\n<p>This could be a major function of blogspace: The creation and proliferation of new words as well as the preservation of ancient words. Like it or not, blogs could become a dominant force in enriching human languages. Wordspy.com provides a fascinating view of our rapidly changing language. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordspy.com\/words\/protirement.asp\"><strong>Protirement<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n(proh.TYR.munt) n. Retiring or quitting an unattractive job to pursue work or hobbies more suited to one&#8217;s personality. Also: pro-tirement.<br \/>\n\u2014protire v.\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/?p=1498\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1830],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3R4iK-oa","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/makingripples.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}