{"id":17630,"date":"2009-11-07T21:50:51","date_gmt":"2009-11-08T02:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/?p=17630"},"modified":"2015-01-09T17:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-01-09T22:00:31","slug":"in-which-i-break-kayfabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/2009\/11\/07\/in-which-i-break-kayfabe\/","title":{"rendered":"In which I break kayfabe"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sentence I wrote was just cited in The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: Volume II<\/i>. Or to put it more accurately, I just learned that I’d been cited, since the book seems to have come out in 2005. <\/p>\n

It’s a thrill, of course, to make your mark like that, but I was surprised by what, out of all my writing, has now worked its way into a reference book.<\/p>\n

\"PartridgeDictionaryofSLang\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Was it a sentence from one of my short stories? Or a passage from a poem? Or a pithy quote from one of my essays or editorials?<\/p>\n

Nope. What got me into Partridge<\/i> was the fact that I used the word “kayfabe” in Warrior Queen<\/i><\/a>, the unauthorized biography I wrote 10 years ago about the WWF wrestler Chyna. (And if you had no idea I was ever involved in such a thing, boy, do I have a story for you!)<\/p>\n

Here’s the entry:<\/p>\n

\"ScottEdelmanKayfabe\"<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s feels a bit strange to be immortalized for something as silly as this—I mean, people were using that term in print long before I ever did—but writers find fame on its terms, rather than our own.<\/p>\n

I’ll take it … while at the same time hoping that I’ll be remembered for something more than that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A sentence I wrote was just cited in The New Partridge Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: Volume II. Or to put it more accurately, I just learned that I’d been cited, since the book seems to have come out in 2005. It’s a thrill, of course, to make your mark like that, but I […]<\/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":[29],"class_list":["post-17630","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-my-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17630","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=17630"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17635,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17630\/revisions\/17635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scottedelman.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}