{"id":183,"date":"2002-02-12T08:19:00","date_gmt":"2002-02-12T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=183"},"modified":"2002-02-12T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2002-02-12T16:19:00","slug":"183","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Reading <a href=\"http:\/\/mightygirl.net\/\">Mighty Girl<\/a>, I realize, sweet merciful heaven, the Germans have a word for <em>everything<\/em>! <em>Weltschmerz<\/em>, Maggie, writes, is &#8220;the unhappiness of eternal disappointment in life as it is.&#8221; Then, of course, there&#8217;s <em>schadenfreude<\/em>, which <a href=\"http:\/\/www.m-w.com\">Merriam-Webster<\/a> defines as &#8220;enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others.&#8221; I&#8217;ve always been partial to <em>schattenj\u00c3\u00a4ger<\/em>, or <em>shadow hunter<\/em>, although strictly speaking it isn&#8217;t a <em>real<\/em> word, since I&#8217;m pretty sure it originates with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janejensen.com\/index0.html\">Jane Jensen&#8217;s<\/a> &#8220;Gabriel Knight&#8221; games for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sierra.com\/\">Sierra<\/a>. Still, it&#8217;s pretty keen. But am I the only one who finds Merriam-Webster&#8217;s offer to &#8220;Get the Top 10 Most Popular Sites for &#8216;schadenfreude'&#8221; a little disconcerting?<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading Mighty Girl, I realize, sweet merciful heaven, the Germans have a word for everything! Weltschmerz, Maggie, writes, is &#8220;the unhappiness of eternal disappointment in life as it is.&#8221; Then, of course, there&#8217;s schadenfreude, which Merriam-Webster defines as &#8220;enjoyment obtained from the troubles of others.&#8221; I&#8217;ve always been partial to schattenj\u00c3\u00a4ger, or shadow hunter, although &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=183\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}