{"id":4549,"date":"2022-07-23T22:45:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-23T22:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.rev.mydaye.com\/?p=4549"},"modified":"2022-07-24T03:08:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-24T03:08:26","slug":"just-to-clear-this-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/?p=4549","title":{"rendered":"Just to clear this up&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"initial-letter\"><div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">When someone is &#8216;flicted that means they do not have a visible deformity or ailment but just generally have&lt;i&gt;something&lt;\/i&gt; wrong with them.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">  <\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">  Afflicted can be used in this same manner to a degree but less comically but usually refers to a person who actually has something visibly wrong with them.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">  <\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">  Sitting here on the south Strip I am struck by just how many people are fucking &#8216;flicted.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">  <\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\" style=\"color: rgb(33, 33, 33); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">  Thank you, Mrs. Williams (my 4 grade teacher) for such good use of this term that I remember it almost 40 years later!<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When someone is &#8216;flicted that means they do not have a visible deformity or ailment but just generally have&lt;i&gt;something&lt;\/i&gt; wrong with them.&nbsp; Afflicted can be used in this same manner to a degree but less comically but usually refers to a person who actually has something visibly wrong with them.&nbsp; Sitting here on the south [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mydaye.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}