{"id":121,"date":"2008-07-15T01:23:53","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T06:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=121"},"modified":"2008-07-15T01:23:53","modified_gmt":"2008-07-15T06:23:53","slug":"one-word-mood-changer-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/15\/one-word-mood-changer-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"One Word Mood Changer Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Thank You To Kottke here:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mamihlapinatapai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mamihlapinatapai<\/a>, a most succinct word.<br \/>\nIt describes a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start. This could perhaps be translated more succinctly as &#8220;eye-contact implying &#8216;after you&#8230;'&#8221;. A more literal approximation is &#8220;ending up mutually at a loss as to what to do about each other&#8221;.Heartbreaking. I wish we had an English word for that feeling. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cynical-c.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">cyn-c<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmm damn you could substitute: how I wish this would happen to me!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Thank You To Kottke here: Mamihlapinatapai, a most succinct word. It describes a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start. This could perhaps be translated more succinctly as &#8220;eye-contact implying &#8216;after you&#8230;&#8217;&#8221;. A more literal approximation is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/07\/15\/one-word-mood-changer-of-the-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;One Word Mood Changer Of The Day&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,115],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reposts","category-word-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}