{"id":7416,"date":"2011-04-04T03:45:32","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T11:45:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/?p=7416"},"modified":"2011-04-04T03:45:32","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T11:45:32","slug":"better-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/better-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/words-that-we-dont-have-in-english.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7417\" title=\"words that we don't have in english\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/words-that-we-dont-have-in-english.png?resize=500%2C412\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/words-that-we-dont-have-in-english.png?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/godammit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/words-that-we-dont-have-in-english.png?resize=300%2C247&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are so may feelings and situations for which there are no words in&nbsp;\u00a0English.<\/p>\n<p>1. What about the feeling when you want to kill your ex-husband? I have that right now.<\/p>\n<p>2. What&nbsp;\u00a0about&nbsp;\u00a0that tingle you get when you swallow some LSD &#8211; a mixter of anticipation and &#8220;Oh no, 8 hours of madness up ahead!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>3. How about the feeling you get when you know&nbsp;\u00a0someone&nbsp;\u00a0is lying to you but you can call them on it?<\/p>\n<p>4. Or what about a word for when you ate all the ice cream &nbsp;\u00a0you vowed not to eat, plus 3 more&nbsp;\u00a0servings?<\/p>\n<p>5. The frisson of irritation when characters on TV gratuitously &nbsp;\u00a0say &#8216;vagina&#8217; every fifteen minutes?<\/p>\n<p>The list is endless.&nbsp;\u00a0Submissions&nbsp;\u00a0or suggestions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so may feelings and situations for which there are no words in&nbsp;\u00a0English. 1. What about the feeling when you want to kill your ex-husband? I have that right now. 2. What&nbsp;\u00a0about&nbsp;\u00a0that tingle you get when you swallow some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/better-words\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[897,1102],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-1VC","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}