{"id":144,"date":"2007-11-13T08:07:27","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T15:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/word-of-the-year-announced-by-oxford-american-dictionary"},"modified":"2016-10-01T09:55:39","modified_gmt":"2016-10-01T16:55:39","slug":"word-of-the-year-announced-by-oxford-american-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/word-of-the-year-announced-by-oxford-american-dictionary","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Year Announced by Oxford American Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of eating homegrown food, then you&#8217;re going to like the new word of the year from the New Oxford American Dictionary.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s word is <em>locavore<\/em>, a word that refers to someone who eats locally grown food. According the the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oup.com\/2007\/11\/locavore\/\">Oxford University Press blog<\/a>,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;locavore&#8221; was coined two years ago by a group of four women in San Francisco who proposed that local residents should try to eat only food grown or produced within a 100-mile radius. Other regional movements have emerged since then, though some groups refer to themselves as \u00e2\u20ac\u0153localvores\u00e2\u20ac\u009d rather than \u00e2\u20ac\u0153locavores.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hmmmm&#8230;not a very exciting new word. I actually liked one of the runner-ups better, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordspy.com\/words\/previvor.asp\">previvor<\/a>: &#8220;A person who does not have cancer, but who has either precancerous cells or a genetic mutation known to cause cancer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full article from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oup.com\/2007\/11\/locavore\/\">Oxford University Press blog<\/a> to see the other runner-ups.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re a fan of eating homegrown food, then you&#8217;re going to like the new word of the year from the New Oxford American Dictionary. This year&#8217;s word is locavore, a word that refers&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[79],"tags":[198,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-locavore","tag-new-oxford-american-dictionary","tag-previvor","tag-word-of-the-year"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pPveS-2k","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}