{"id":117,"date":"2007-03-11T16:15:54","date_gmt":"2007-03-11T20:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=117"},"modified":"2007-03-11T16:15:54","modified_gmt":"2007-03-11T20:15:54","slug":"wordly-wise-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/117","title":{"rendered":"Wordly Wise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new (to me) words that I like quite a bit:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Handwavium<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>The fictional material <strong>handwavium<\/strong> (similar to <a title=\"Unobtainium\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Unobtainium\">unobtainium<\/a>) is sometimes referred to in situations where the solution requires access to a substance that is probably possible to create, but only by means which would require a great deal of research, development, time, effort, and\/or money, none of which the speaker intends to explain at the moment. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Handwaving\">*<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Beausage &#8211; probably pronounced byoosij, but I like the sound of b\u00c5\u008d-sahzh&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;it&#8217;s a synthetic combination of the words <em>beauty<\/em> and <em>usage<\/em>, and describes the beauty that comes with using something.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>How, you may ask, is beausage any different than patina?  Well, it&#8217;s certainly related, but different.  Patina is really more about surface level changes happening at a chemical level: oxidation, chemical stripping, and so on.  Beausage describes changes that happen in 3D where atoms get torn and stripped away, as occurs with scratches, tears, chips, and wear marks. <a href=\"http:\/\/metacool.typepad.com\/metacool\/2005\/05\/beausage.html\">*<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For another nice example of beausage, see <a href=\"http:\/\/metacool.typepad.com\/metacool\/2006\/11\/more_beausage.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two new (to me) words that I like quite a bit: Handwavium The fictional material handwavium (similar to unobtainium) is sometimes referred to in situations where the solution requires access to a substance that is probably possible to create, but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/117\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-1T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}