{"id":1064,"date":"2003-12-17T13:05:12","date_gmt":"2003-12-17T18:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/creator\/2003\/12\/17\/1064\/"},"modified":"2003-12-17T13:05:12","modified_gmt":"2003-12-17T18:05:12","slug":"1064","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/2003\/12\/17\/1064\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ocf.berkeley.edu\/~sumanah\/\">Sumana<\/a> inadvertently pointed out to me the other day, because I run <a href=\"http:\/\/newsbruiser.tigris.org\/\" title=\"The mascot is a pachycephalosaur.\">NewsBruiser<\/a>, my use of the verb &#8220;to blog&#8221; to mean &#8220;to publish in my interweb journal&#8221; is actually deprecated.  &#8220;To bruise&#8221; is just more specific, not to mention way more not-bleeding-yet-edge.  I need to start using that instead.<\/p>\n<p>Tangentially, how far do you think the logical extension of &#8220;cutting edge&#8221;-style slang can actually go?  &#8220;Virgin material, untouched by an edge?&#8221;  &#8220;Substance unaware of the edge&#8217;s existence?&#8221;  &#8220;Prehistoric stuff existing in a world where edges have not yet been invented?&#8221;  It kind of loops eventually, I guess.  &#8220;So far beyond the cutting edge that it&#8217;s actually on the <i>other edge,<\/i> the one not doing the cutting.&#8221;  I wonder what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skepticfiles.org\/en001\/clockorg.htm\" title=\"&quot;At first the vocabulary seems incomprehensible:  'you could peet it with vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom or one or two other veshches.'&quot;\">Anthony Burgess<\/a> would say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Sumana inadvertently pointed out to me the other day, because I run NewsBruiser, my use of the verb &#8220;to blog&#8221; to mean &#8220;to publish in my interweb journal&#8221; is actually deprecated. &#8220;To bruise&#8221; is just more specific, not to mention way more not-bleeding-yet-edge. I need to start using that instead. Tangentially, how far do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metablogging","category-slang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/nfd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}