{"id":6462,"date":"2016-11-08T18:22:51","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T00:22:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=6462"},"modified":"2016-11-08T18:22:51","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T00:22:51","slug":"word-of-the-day-36","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/08\/word-of-the-day-36\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Asemic<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Asemic writing<\/b> is a wordless open <a title=\"Semantics\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Semantics\">semantic<\/a> form of <a title=\"Writing\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Writing\">writing.<\/a>\u00a0The word <i>asemic<\/i> means &#8220;having no specific semantic content&#8221;.\u00a0With the non-specificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning which is left for the reader to fill in and interpret. All of this is similar to the way one would deduce meaning from an <a title=\"Abstract art\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Abstract_art\">abstract<\/a>\u00a0work of art. Where asemic writing differs from abstract art is in the asemic author&#8217;s use of gestural constraint, and the retention of physical characteristics of writing such as lines and symbols. [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Asemic_writing\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Wikipedia<\/strong><\/em><\/a>]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Encountered in the letters column of <em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(19 October 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asemic: Asemic writing is a wordless open semantic form of writing.\u00a0The word asemic means &#8220;having no specific semantic content&#8221;.\u00a0With the non-specificity of asemic writing there comes a vacuum of meaning which is left for the reader to fill in and interpret. All of this is similar to the way one \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2016\/11\/08\/word-of-the-day-36\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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-6462","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\/6462","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=6462"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6463,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6462\/revisions\/6463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}