{"id":3609,"date":"2008-12-05T07:28:17","date_gmt":"2008-12-05T12:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2008-12-05T07:28:17","modified_gmt":"2008-12-05T12:28:17","slug":"todays-word-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/archives\/3609","title":{"rendered":"Today&#8217;s Word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a fan of folk fore and folk tales, I&#8217;ve always been fond of golems. Even if they do tend to come to depressing ends.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/golem\"><strong>golem<\/strong><\/a>   \\GOH-lum\\   noun<br \/>\n    1 : an artificial being in Hebrew folklore endowed with life<br \/>\n   *2 : someone or something resembling a golem<\/p>\n<p>Did you know?<br \/>\n    The Hebrew ancestor of the word &#8220;golem&#8221; meant &#8220;shapeless mass,&#8221; and the original golems started as lumps of clay that were formed into figures and brought to life by means of a charm or a combination of letters forming a sacred word. In the Middle Ages, golems were thought to be the perfect servants; their only fault was that they were sometimes too literal or mechanical in fulfilling their masters&#8217; orders. In the 16th century, the golem was thought of as a protector of the Jews in times of persecution. But by the late 1800s, &#8220;golem&#8221; had acquired a less friendly second sense, referring to a man-made monster that inspired many of the back-from-the-dead creations of classic horror fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a fan of folk fore and folk tales, I&#8217;ve always been fond of golems. Even if they do tend to come to depressing ends. golem \\GOH-lum\\ noun 1 : an artificial being in Hebrew folklore endowed with life *2 : someone or something resembling a golem Did you know? The Hebrew ancestor of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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":false,"_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","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[290],"class_list":["post-3609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-sequiturs","tag-golems"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pefxA-Wd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/notreally\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}