{"id":26958,"date":"2021-05-03T16:47:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-03T15:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=26958"},"modified":"2021-05-03T16:48:35","modified_gmt":"2021-05-03T15:48:35","slug":"word-of-the-day-flaneur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=26958","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: fl\u00e2neur"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A friend used this term today to describe me. I&#8217;d never heard of it and had to look it up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fl\u00e2neur&nbsp;is a French term&nbsp;meaning&nbsp;&#8216;stroller&#8217; used by nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire to identify an observer of modern urban life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I guess this captures the essence of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/roger.darlington.9\/\">my Facebook page<\/a>, especially since I moved to central London two years ago, and most especially during the three lockdowns in London during the coronavirus pandemic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend used this term today to describe me. I&#8217;d never heard of it and had to look it up. Fl\u00e2neur&nbsp;is a French term&nbsp;meaning&nbsp;&#8216;stroller&#8217; used by nineteenth-century French poet Charles Baudelaire to identify an observer of modern urban life. I guess this captures the essence of my Facebook page, especially since I moved to central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consumer-matters","category-my-life-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26958"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26961,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26958\/revisions\/26961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}