{"id":17653,"date":"2018-11-05T11:47:17","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T19:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17653"},"modified":"2018-11-05T11:47:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T19:47:17","slug":"hot-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/11\/05\/hot-take\/","title":{"rendered":"hot take"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>It recently occurred to me that I have not, in fact, been using the term <strong>hot take<\/strong> for decades. It\u2019s odd the way that new (or newly widespread) coinages seem to have been around forever. But then, the really successful neologisms fill a need for a succinct phrase to describe a common feeling, so naturally I <i>would<\/i> have used the term had it been in use.\r\n<p>For those of you unfamiliar with the term, <a href=\"https:\/\/psmag.com\/social-justice\/a-brief-history-of-bad-sports-writing-64380\">A Brief History of Bad Sportswriting<\/a> by Tomas Rios is a pretty thorough grounding, and <a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/121501\/history-hot-take\">A History of the Hot Take<\/a> by Elspeth Reeve takes you through the spread of the term outside sports.\r\n<p>One of the things that\u2019s interesting to me is that while the term sounds like a positive one, it never had any positive connotation. It was popularized as a derisive term for a particular kind of writing, and now I see it most often used as a self-deprecating humorous insulation from the user\u2019s unpopular opinion\u2014or alternately, used entirely ironically by someone tweeting a supposed <strong>hot take<\/strong> that they mean to express the wrongness of. It <i>sounds<\/i> like it was derived from an actual positive term, but I don\u2019t think it was. When you call something a <strong>hot take<\/strong>, you aren\u2019t <i>quite<\/i> saying it\u2019s wrong, but you are pretty much saying that there\u2019s no evidence it\u2019s right, and that it\u2019s poorly thought-out even it if happens to be correct.\r\n<p>I can\u2019t immediately think of other terms that seem like they ought to be positive but are exclusively used derisively.\r\n<p>Thanks,<br>-Ed.\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There will be a lot of hot takes tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-specific-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17653","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17653"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17656,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17653\/revisions\/17656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}