{"id":6615,"date":"2013-11-20T10:05:33","date_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6615"},"modified":"2013-11-20T10:05:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-20T16:05:34","slug":"selfie-wins-title-for-word-of-the-year-for-2013-abqjournal-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wotd\/selfie-wins-title-for-word-of-the-year-for-2013-abqjournal-online\/","title":{"rendered":"&lsquo;Selfie&rsquo; wins title for word of the year for 2013 | ABQJournal Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been reluctant to follow the herd on this, but \u2018selfie\u2019 is very convenient, and that usually wins me over. Even the masturbatory undertone is fitting, metaphorically. Ours is the Age of the Self, as any blogger proves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/304528\/news\/nation\/selfie-wins-title-of-word-of-the-year-for-2013.html\">\u2018Selfie\u2019 wins title for word of the year for 2013 | ABQJournal Online<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Perhaps surprising to some, the term was first recorded in Australia, not the U.S. or Britain, in 2002. An abashed and probably hungover participant in an Internet forum posted a self-portrait taken after a drunken accident on a set of stairs.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a hole \u2026 right through my bottom lip,\u201d the post said. \u201cAnd sorry about the focus, it was a selfie.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/304528\/news\/nation\/selfie-wins-title-of-word-of-the-year-for-2013.html\">\u2018Selfie\u2019 wins title for word of the year for 2013 | ABQJournal Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Convenience swayed me to simplify \u201can e-mail\u201d but as long as I live the Web and the Internet will be capitalized, much as the Universe should be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been reluctant to follow the herd on this, but \u2018selfie\u2019 is very convenient, and that usually wins me over. Even the masturbatory undertone is fitting, metaphorically. Ours is the Age of the Self, as any blogger proves. \u2018Selfie\u2019 wins title for word of the year for 2013 | ABQJournal Online Perhaps surprising to some, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wotd\/selfie-wins-title-for-word-of-the-year-for-2013-abqjournal-online\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&lsquo;Selfie&rsquo; wins title for word of the year for 2013 | ABQJournal Online<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wotd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6616,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6615\/revisions\/6616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}