{"id":17421,"date":"2018-05-08T09:32:44","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T16:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17421"},"modified":"2018-05-01T09:40:43","modified_gmt":"2018-05-01T16:40:43","slug":"morfternoon-and-maen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/05\/08\/morfternoon-and-maen\/","title":{"rendered":"morfternoon and maen"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>A few weeks ago, I coined the word <i>morfternoon<\/i>, which refers to the period of time in a given day when it\u2019s technically very late morning or even afternoon, but one is having such a slow start to one\u2019s day that it\u2019s effectively morning.<\/p>\r\n<p>Sadly, I see that others have also coined this term; there are a few dozen instances of it on the web. Urban Dictionary\u2019s top-ranked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=morfternoon\">definition<\/a> has to do with time zones, but its second definition is the same basic idea as mine: \u201cLate morning but not quite afternoon. When you don\u2019t know [whether] to say good morning or good afternoon.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>I hadn\u2019t thought about the time-zone-greeting issue. It turns out that another option for greeting people in a different time zone is <i>good maen<\/i>, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=maen\">maen<\/a> is a (usually non-capitalized) acronym for \u201cMorning, Afternoon, Evening, and Night.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17421","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\/17421","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=17421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17424,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17421\/revisions\/17424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}