{"id":3754,"date":"2006-12-23T09:50:04","date_gmt":"2006-12-23T17:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/12\/23\/flaneur.html"},"modified":"2006-12-23T09:50:04","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T17:50:04","slug":"flaneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/12\/23\/flaneur\/","title":{"rendered":"flaneur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I'm cheating a little, 'cause I may have heard the word \"<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fl\u00e2neur\">fl&acirc;neur<\/a>\" before; but it came up twice in unrelated contexts on the same day, a month or so back, so I figured I'd mention it here.<\/p>\n<p>To quote Wikipedia: \"A fl&acirc;neur is a detached pedestrian observer of a metropolis, a 'gentleman stroller of city streets', first identified by Charles Baudelaire.\"<\/p>\n<p>The two occurrences I recently encountered:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Rose knew that something unusual was going on, he said, when the very first ad he received, after starting the column in 1998, began: \"67-year-old disaffiliated fl&acirc;neur picking my toothless way through the urban sprawl, self-destructive, sliding towards pathos, jacked up on Viagra and on the lookout for a contortionist who plays the trumpet.\"<\/p>\n<p>--\"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/11\/21\/world\/europe\/21personals.html?ex=1321765200&amp;en=d198f9ffc65d0e71&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">Book Lovers Seek Lovers, Buttered or Plain<\/a>,\" by Sarah Lyall, an article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/classified\/index.php\"><cite>London Review of Books<\/cite> personals column<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And, from a Wikipedia article on a Degas painting called \"<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Place_de_la_Concorde_(painting)\"> Viscount Lepic and his Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde<\/a>,\" this: \"The Vicomte Lepic was an aristocrat, artist, and fl&acirc;neur.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m cheating a little, &#8217;cause I may have heard the word &#8220;fl&acirc;neur&#8221; before; but it came up twice in unrelated contexts on the same day, a month or so back,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3754","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\/3754","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=3754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}