{"id":404,"date":"2002-08-13T15:19:00","date_gmt":"2002-08-13T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/?p=404"},"modified":"2021-05-16T15:26:48","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T19:26:48","slug":"a-word-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2002\/08\/13\/a-word-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A.Word.A.Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/images\/moviesbug.gif?resize=65%2C20&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"65\" height=\"20\">&nbsp; &nbsp; Got this in my <a href=\"http:\/\/wordsmith.org\/awad\/add.html\">A.Word.A.Day<\/a> e-mail this morning:<br><blockquote><br><b>fartlek<\/b> (FART-lek) <i>noun<\/I><br>A method of training, originally developed for runners, that involves intense activity interspersed with low effort. For example, sprinting and walking.<br>[<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">From Swedish fart (speed) + lek (play).<\/span>]<\/blockquote><br>The Swedish word for &#8220;speed&#8221; is &#8220;fart&#8221;? Seriously? Then movie marquees must&#8217;ve looked awfully funny in 1994. I&#8217;ll never look at my <i>Speed<\/i> DVD the same way again.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Got this in my A.Word.A.Day e-mail this morning: fartlek (FART-lek) nounA method of training, originally developed for runners, that involves intense activity interspersed with low effort. For example, sprinting and walking.[From Swedish fart (speed) + lek (play).] The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/2002\/08\/13\/a-word-a-day\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","category-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":408,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404\/revisions\/408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wastinaway.net\/shortfatguy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}