{"id":1178,"date":"2017-12-19T11:38:21","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T16:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/?p=1178"},"modified":"2017-12-19T11:38:21","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T16:38:21","slug":"oxford_dictionaries_word_of_the_year_2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/2017\/12\/19\/oxford_dictionaries_word_of_the_year_2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford Dictionaries Word of the Year 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I learned a new word: &#8220;youthquake.&#8221; According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.oxforddictionaries.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Oxford Dictionaries<\/a> this is &#8220;a\u00a0significant cultural, political, or social change arising from the actions or influence of young people,&#8221; and it is their <a href=\"https:\/\/en.oxforddictionaries.com\/word-of-the-year\/word-of-the-year-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">world of the year<\/a>. \u00a0The other <a href=\"https:\/\/en.oxforddictionaries.com\/word-of-the-year\/shortlist-2017\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">eight finalists for word of the year<\/a> were Antifa, broflake, gorpcore, kompromat, milkshake duck, newsjacking, unicorn, and White fragility. I&#8217;ve only heard of Antifa and White fragility [and unicorn, but only as a reference to a mythical animal, not &#8220;denoting something, especially an item of food or drink, that is dyed in rainbow colours, decorated with glitter, etc.&#8221;]. I&#8217;ll need to read the dictionary more often&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I learned a new word: &#8220;youthquake.&#8221; According to the Oxford Dictionaries this is &#8220;a\u00a0significant cultural, political, or social change arising from the actions or influence of young people,&#8221; and it is their world of the year. \u00a0The other eight finalists for word of the year were Antifa, broflake, gorpcore, kompromat, milkshake duck, newsjacking, unicorn, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1927,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[22214],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-media-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1927"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1179,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions\/1179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/dean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}