{"id":18184,"date":"2020-03-07T08:37:38","date_gmt":"2020-03-07T16:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18184"},"modified":"2020-03-07T18:24:07","modified_gmt":"2020-03-08T03:24:07","slug":"untruncating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2020\/03\/07\/untruncating\/","title":{"rendered":"Untruncating"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Facebook notifications often show an abbreviated version of some of the text that they\u2019re about. In particular, notifications about shared links show an abbreviated version of the linked-to piece\u2019s headline\/title, with an ellipsis at the end.<\/p>\r\n<p>Which sometimes makes me want to complete the truncated title. Which can have entertaining results.<\/p>\r\n<p>I\u2019ve been meaning for a while to post here about the un-truncating-titles game. But often, the article turns out to be about a very serious or upsetting issue, so I don\u2019t want to make jokes about it.<\/p>\r\n<p>But this morning I came across a headline that\u2019s non-serious enough and open-ended enough to use as an example. The Facebook notification showed the article title like this:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>New Zealand birds show humanlike\u2026<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>So I invite you to complete that headline.<\/p>\r\n<p>I also invite you to post other automatically truncated headlines, and your suggestions for untruncating them. But best to avoid headlines that were originally about traumatic or contentious situations.<\/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":[41,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-headlines"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18184","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=18184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18185,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18184\/revisions\/18185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}