{"id":23456,"date":"2013-11-19T17:17:23","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T21:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/?p=23456"},"modified":"2013-11-19T17:22:30","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T21:22:30","slug":"selfie-word-of-year-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2013\/11\/19\/selfie-word-of-year-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"Picture This: My Selfish Take On &#8220;Selfie&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alas, &#8220;selfie&#8221; is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oxforddictionaries.com\/press-releases\/oxford-dictionaries-word-of-the-year-2013\/\">Oxford Dictionaries&#8217; international Word of the Year for 2013<\/a>, beating out shortlisters &#8220;bedroom tax,&#8221; &#8220;binge-watch,&#8221; &#8220;bitcoin,&#8221; &#8220;olinguito,&#8221; &#8220;schmeat,&#8221; &#8220;showrooming,&#8221; and &#8220;twerk.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Picture This: My Selfish Take On &#8220;Selfie&#8221; (Limerick)<br \/>\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n<p>Oxford&#8217;s Word of the Year is a crime!<br \/>\nChoosing &#8220;selfie&#8221; just won&#8217;t ring my chime.<br \/>\nWhy not finalist &#8220;schmeat,&#8221;<br \/>\nThe lab-raised fake meat?<br \/>\nFor one thing, &#8220;schmeat&#8217;s&#8221; simpler to rhyme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alas, &#8220;selfie&#8221; is Oxford Dictionaries&#8217; international Word of the Year for 2013, beating out shortlisters &#8220;bedroom tax,&#8221; &#8220;binge-watch,&#8221; &#8220;bitcoin,&#8221; &#8220;olinguito,&#8221; &#8220;schmeat,&#8221; &#8220;showrooming,&#8221; and &#8220;twerk.&#8221; Picture This: My Selfish Take On &#8220;Selfie&#8221; (Limerick) By Madeleine Begun Kane Oxford&#8217;s Word of the Year is a crime! Choosing &#8220;selfie&#8221; just won&#8217;t ring my chime. Why not finalist &#8220;schmeat,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53,42],"tags":[3921,427,3924,3923,3922,3925],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23456"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23456"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23467,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23456\/revisions\/23467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}