{"id":17513,"date":"2018-07-14T09:28:33","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T16:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17513"},"modified":"2018-07-23T08:44:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T15:44:58","slug":"xenomorph","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/07\/14\/xenomorph\/","title":{"rendered":"xenomorph"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>An <cite>Ars Technica<\/cite> article from 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/the-multiverse\/2014\/08\/the-throwaway-line-in-aliens-that-spawned-decades-of-confusion\/\">explains<\/a> that the word \u201cxenomorph\u201d in <cite>Aliens<\/cite> is a generic term and not a specific name for that specific species.<\/p>\r\n<p>Commenters point out that the exhaustively argued conclusion that the article comes to is exactly what they had assumed to be true from watching the movie. Nonetheless, I admire the geeky thoroughness of the author.<\/p>\r\n<p>Content warning for a quote from <cite>Aliens<\/cite> that includes a sometimes-racialized misogynist term.<\/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":[108,83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-capitalization","category-specific-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513","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=17513"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17549,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17513\/revisions\/17549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}