{"id":38301,"date":"2023-02-02T20:24:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-03T02:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=38301"},"modified":"2023-02-02T20:24:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-03T02:24:31","slug":"word-of-the-day-863","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/02\/02\/word-of-the-day-863\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Friend-zone<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>a friendship in which one person, typically male, is romantically or sexually attracted to the other, but the attraction is not mutual:<br \/>\n<em>He&#8217;s obviously in love with her but she keeps him in the friend zone. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dictionary.com\/browse\/friend-zone\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Dictionary.com<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2023\/02\/02\/singapore-rejected-man-sues-woman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>She friend-zoned him. He\u2019s suing her for $2.3 million over it<\/em><\/a>.&#8221; Bryan Pietsch, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"teaser-content grid-center\">\n<div class=\"article-body\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css font-copy\" data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">The man, identified as drone racing executive K. Kawshigan in legal documents, alleged in a defamation lawsuit set to be heard in Singapore\u2019s High Court next week that the woman\u2019s rejection caused him \u201csustained trauma\u201d and \u201creductions in his earning capacity.\u201d The suit, which the woman is contesting, seeks about $2.3 million in damages for the alleged harm of being\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/soloish\/wp\/2016\/02\/04\/when-the-friend-zone-is-better-than-nothing\/?itid=lk_inline_manual_2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">friend-zoned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p data-testid=\"drop-cap-letter\" data-el=\"text\">Uh huh. I wonder how old Kawshigan might be. And how spoiled.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friend-zone: a friendship in which one person, typically male, is romantically or sexually attracted to the other, but the attraction is not mutual: He&#8217;s obviously in love with her but she keeps him in the friend zone. [Dictionary.com] Noted in &#8220;She friend-zoned him. He\u2019s suing her for $2.3 million over \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2023\/02\/02\/word-of-the-day-863\/\"> 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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38302,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38301\/revisions\/38302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}