{"id":4292,"date":"2020-03-29T13:50:29","date_gmt":"2020-03-29T18:50:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/?p=4292"},"modified":"2020-03-29T13:50:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-29T18:50:29","slug":"open-tabs-new-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/open-tabs-new-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Open tabs, new words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my friend Eric (the Silent K) asked folks on Facebook:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nHey, word-smiths. Is there a word that describes the sensation of doing something normal in abnormal times?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In response, I coined not one but two related words &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Abnotopia\">Abnotopia<\/a> <i>the sensation of doing something normal in abnormal times<\/i> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Abnophoria\">Abnophoria<\/a> <i>Feeling elation in an abnormally weird or scary time<\/i>. They&#8217;re now in <a href=\"https:\/\/urbandictionary\">Urban Dictionary<\/a>. Vote &#8217;em up!<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally some open tabs in my browser:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/the-lark.net\/issues\/volume-one\/volume-1-issue-3\/the-myth-of-voice\/\">The Myth of Voice by Sean Igoe<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/the-lark.net\">The Lark<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/believermag.com\/logger\/all-you-have-to-do-is-say-the-words-some-notes-regarding-robert-hasss-summer-snow\/\">&#8220;All You Have To Do Is Say The Words&#8221; Some notes regarding Robert Hass&#8217;s &#8220;Summer Snow&#8221;<\/a> by Jonathan Farmer in <a href=\"https:\/\/believermag.com\/logger\/\">Believer Magazine&#8217;s Logger<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.literarymatters.org\/1-3-windows\/\">Windows, Emily Leithouser&#8217;s translation of Charles Baudelaire&#8217;s Les Fen\u00c3\u00aatres<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.literarymatters.org\/\">LIterady Matters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Narasimha\">Narasimbha &#8211; the 4th avatar of Vishnu<\/a>. The half-man\/half-lion avatar is a one time use god. He incarnated, he killed a very bad deamon, and that&#8217;s it.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, my friend Eric (the Silent K) asked folks on Facebook: Hey, word-smiths. Is there a word that describes the sensation of doing something normal in abnormal times? In response, I coined not one but two related words &#8211; Abnotopia the sensation of doing something normal in abnormal times and Abnophoria Feeling elation in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4293,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4292\/revisions\/4293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}