{"id":1151,"date":"2012-04-07T12:46:32","date_gmt":"2012-04-07T20:46:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2012-04-07T13:00:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-07T21:00:54","slug":"adorable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/2012\/04\/07\/adorable\/","title":{"rendered":"Adorable is dead.  Long live adorable."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have a look at this Google Trends data:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"frame-outer  alignleft size-full wp-image-1152\"><span><span><span><span><a href=\"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/googleTrendsAdorable.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1152\" src=\"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/googleTrendsAdorable.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"315\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/googleTrendsAdorable.png 612w, http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/googleTrendsAdorable-150x113.png 150w, http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/googleTrendsAdorable-300x227.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since 2008, both searches for and web pages containing the word &#8220;adorable&#8221; have grown unchecked&#8211; like mildew on the flowered vinyl shower curtain of English diction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Adorable&#8221; is officially overused. \u00a0Using it now marks you as being unable to think of the correct word. Don&#8217;t do it.<\/p>\n<p>Apple&#8217;s Dictionary.app lists these as synonyms for &#8220;adorable&#8221;:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lovable, appealing, charming,\u00a0cute,\u00a0cuddly,\u00a0sweet, enchanting,\u00a0bewitching,\u00a0captivating,\u00a0engaging,\u00a0endearing,\u00a0dear, darling,\u00a0delightful,\u00a0lovely,\u00a0beautiful,\u00a0attractive,\u00a0gorgeous,\u00a0winsome, winning, and fetching.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If none of those fit, and you are not describing something worthy of worship as a divine being, STOP TYPING.<\/p>\n<p>(For more information, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/trends\/?q=adorable\">run a Google Trends search on &#8220;adorable&#8221;<\/a> directly.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have a look at this Google Trends data: Since 2008, both searches for and web pages containing the word &#8220;adorable&#8221; have grown unchecked&#8211; like mildew on the flowered vinyl shower curtain of English diction. &#8220;Adorable&#8221; is officially overused. \u00a0Using it now marks you as being unable to think of the correct word. Don&#8217;t do it. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[180,181,186,201,200,192,193,187,189,188,197,196,198,183,191,195,194,205,184,206,202,182,185,199,190,204,203],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stephan-zielinski.com\/dwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}