{"id":5755,"date":"2019-04-08T09:00:55","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T13:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=5755"},"modified":"2019-04-03T15:47:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T19:47:10","slug":"when-neologisms-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/when-neologisms-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"WHEN NEOLOGISMS ATTACK"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So, there we\nwere, me and the Evil Princess in a hotel room in Montgomery, Alabama last week\ngetting ready to teach a class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recent\ncataract surgery has sharpened my vision.&nbsp;\nLooking in the mirror, I muttered \u201cDamn, I\u2019m old and ugly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAw,\u201d she\npurred back, \u201cyou\u2019re not <em>ugly\u2026<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHey. Hey! <em>Hey!\u201d<\/em> I replied.&nbsp; \u201cBeing cruel to the elderly is a hate crime,\nya know!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt isn\u2019t\ncruel if it\u2019s the truth,\u201d she said sweetly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe truth\nsometimes <em>is <\/em>cruel,\u201d I grumbled back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She smiled\nher irresistible Sissy Spacek smile and retorted, \u201cSo I\u2019m guilty of\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c\u2026<em>truelty?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ouch. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cTruelty.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Gotta admit,\nthough, it\u2019s the first time I\u2019ve been present at the birth of a new word.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, there we were, me and the Evil Princess in a hotel room in Montgomery, Alabama last week getting ready to teach a class. Recent cataract surgery has sharpened my vision.&nbsp; Looking in the mirror, I muttered \u201cDamn, I\u2019m old and ugly.\u201d \u201cAw,\u201d she purred back, \u201cyou\u2019re not ugly\u2026\u201d \u201cHey. Hey! Hey!\u201d I replied.&nbsp; \u201cBeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5756,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5755\/revisions\/5756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}