{"id":772,"date":"2008-03-15T19:29:33","date_gmt":"2008-03-16T03:29:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godammit.com\/2008\/03\/15\/stendahls-syndrome-and-wordschmertz\/"},"modified":"2008-03-15T19:32:25","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T03:32:25","slug":"stendahls-syndrome-and-wordschmertz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/stendahls-syndrome-and-wordschmertz\/","title":{"rendered":"Stendahl&#8217;s Syndrome &#038; Wordschmerz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stendahl&#8217;s Syndrome&#8221; refers to the symptoms of dizziness, racing heart, and rapture brought about by an encounter with great art. Isn&#8217;t that a cool term?<\/p>\n<p>While looking at various definitions of <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.frieze.com\/issue\/article\/the_shock_of_the_old\/\">Stendahl&#8217;s Syndrome<\/a>, I came upon <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.wordspy.com\/topwords.asp\">this list <\/a>of popular new words, most of which filled me with a sense of rage and grief that I will call &#8220;<strong>wordschmerz<\/strong>.&#8221; (I&#8217;m too lazy to find out the German word for &#8220;word.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>I am particularly sickened by <strong>fauxhawk<\/strong>, <strong>lifestreaming<\/strong>, and <strong>defictionalization<\/strong>. I do like <strong>post-gay<\/strong>, however. But not as much as <strong>post post-gay.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Stendahl&#8217;s Syndrome&#8221; refers to the symptoms of dizziness, racing heart, and rapture brought about by an encounter with great art. Isn&#8217;t that a cool term? While looking at various definitions of Stendahl&#8217;s Syndrome, I came upon this list of popular &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/godammit.com\/stendahls-syndrome-and-wordschmertz\/\">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":[7,6],"tags":[97,95,96,99,98],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t44M-cs","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772"}],"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=772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/godammit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}