{"id":12120,"date":"2009-05-18T21:55:11","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T04:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2009\/05\/18\/energumen.html"},"modified":"2009-05-18T21:55:11","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T04:55:11","slug":"energumen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2009\/05\/18\/energumen\/","title":{"rendered":"energumen"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An \"energumen\" turns out to be a person possessed by an evil spirit, or someone who acts like they're possessed, or a fanatic.<\/p>\n<p>I'm now surprised that I haven't seen this term used in fandom.<\/p>\n<p>But in fact where I came across it was an <cite>L.A. Times<\/cite> article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/opinion\/la-oe-goldberg19-2009may19,1,1614352.column\">Pelosi and torture<\/a>, in which the article's author wrote: \"I oppose the sort of witch hunt Pelosi and her energumens clearly crave.\"<\/p>\n<p>(I ask that commenters not comment on the politics of that statement; I'm quoting it only to give an example of word use. The opinions of people quoted in this blog are not necessarily shared by the blogger.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An &#8220;energumen&#8221; turns out to be a person possessed by an evil spirit, or someone who acts like they&#8217;re possessed, or a fanatic. I&#8217;m now surprised that I haven&#8217;t seen&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}