{"id":17839,"date":"2019-02-22T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2019-02-22T17:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17839"},"modified":"2019-02-15T22:26:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T06:26:10","slug":"weblog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/02\/22\/weblog\/","title":{"rendered":"weblog"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I recently saw the word <i>weblog<\/i> in a Bruce Sterling story (\u201cBlack Swan\u201d) that was published in 2009.<\/p>\r\n<p>Which surprised me, because even I, who disliked the word <i>blog<\/i> for a long time, was writing <i>blog<\/i> casually by 2002, and I think of Sterling as having been usually somewhere near the cutting edge of the tech world at the time.<\/p>\r\n<p>And no, the usage in the story isn't intended to indicate a lack of tech savvy; the word is used in narration by the very tech-savvy tech-journalist narrator.<\/p>\r\n<p>In fact, later in the story, the same narrator casually uses the word <i>blogger<\/i>. Which makes me wonder whether Sterling originally wrote the word <i>blog<\/i> instead of <i>weblog<\/i>. The story originally appeared in Italian; I wonder if somewhere along the route of translation and publication in English, someone replaced <i>blog<\/i> with <i>weblog<\/i>.<\/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":[83],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17839","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\/17839","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=17839"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17844,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17839\/revisions\/17844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}