{"id":16748,"date":"2008-12-22T22:55:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-23T03:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=16748"},"modified":"2014-12-10T18:17:56","modified_gmt":"2014-12-10T23:17:57","slug":"the-buzzwords-of-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/22\/the-buzzwords-of-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"The buzzwords of 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/ref\/weekinreview\/buzzwords2008.html\" target=\"_blank\">Over at <i>The New York Times<\/i><\/a>, Grant Barrett, the head of the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society, has anointed &#8220;The Buzzwords of 2008.&#8221;  To make it even more interesting, artist Jessica Hische has whipped up some intriguing typographical treatments of the chosen phrases.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one you may recall, spawned by a particularly idiotic moment in one of the year&#8217;s biggest blockbusters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NuketheFridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NuketheFridge-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"NuketheFridge\" width=\"300\" height=\"191\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-16749\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NuketheFridge-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/NuketheFridge.jpg 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over at The New York Times, Grant Barrett, the head of the New Words Committee of the American Dialect Society, has anointed &#8220;The Buzzwords of 2008.&#8221; To make it even more interesting, artist Jessica Hische has whipped up some intriguing typographical treatments of the chosen phrases. Here&#8217;s one you may recall, spawned by a particularly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16750,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16748\/revisions\/16750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}