{"id":2115,"date":"2011-03-28T22:29:56","date_gmt":"2011-03-29T03:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2011-03-28T22:29:56","modified_gmt":"2011-03-29T03:29:56","slug":"antipode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2115","title":{"rendered":"Antipode"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this word in a <a title=\"&quot;In Deference to Crisis, a New Obsession Sweeps Japan: Self-Restraint&quot;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/03\/28\/world\/asia\/28tokyo.html?_r=1&amp;src=un&amp;feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fworld%2Fasia%2Findex.jsonp\">NYT article<\/a> about the Japanese public&#8217;s reaction to the crisis in their country.\u00a0 I wish it was pronounced: Ahn TIH poe dee, but unfortunately, it&#8217;s AHN tih pohd (with a long o).\u00a0 Still, I like the look of the word, a noun that\u00a0refers to something that is entirely opposite of something else.<\/p>\n<p>The excitable, frenzied fellow was totally calm, the antipode of his usual behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this word in a NYT article about the Japanese public&#8217;s reaction to the crisis in their country.\u00a0 I wish it was pronounced: Ahn TIH poe dee, but unfortunately, it&#8217;s AHN tih pohd (with a long o).\u00a0 Still, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/?p=2115\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[238,26],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2137,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2115\/revisions\/2137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thelifeliterary.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}