{"id":3946,"date":"2011-03-27T22:36:13","date_gmt":"2011-03-27T13:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/?p=3946"},"modified":"2011-03-27T23:46:13","modified_gmt":"2011-03-27T14:46:13","slug":"fear-peoples-the-darkness-with-monsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/03\/27\/fear-peoples-the-darkness-with-monsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear peoples the darkness with monsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely used words and neologisms abound in recent Japanese news&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>More than the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mutantfrog.com\/2011\/03\/24\/the-fly-jin-hype-or-\u300c\u30d5\u30e9\u30a4\u30b8\u30f3\u300d\u306b\u8a72\u5f53\u3059\u308b\u30da\u30fc\u30b8\u304c\u898b\u3064\u304b\/\">news-fabricated <i>fly-jin<\/i> &#8220;trend&#8221;<\/a>, my favourite Japanese phrase these days is <acronym title=\"\u304e\u3057\u3093\u3042\u3093\u304d\">\u7591\u5fc3\u6697\u9b3c<\/acronym>: <\/p>\n<p>An idiom whose components literally translate to &#8220;fear &#8211; darkness &#8211; demons&#8221;, beautifully rendered by the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kenky\u016bsha's_New_Japanese-English_Dictionary\"><i>Green Goddess<\/i><\/a> into: &#8220;Fear peoples the darkness with monsters&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In everyday conversation, it can be used as a synonym for <a href=\"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/03\/15\/disaster-news-and-some-armchair-ranting\/\">&#8220;paranoia&#8221;<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rarely used words and neologisms abound in recent Japanese news&#8230; More than the news-fabricated fly-jin &#8220;trend&#8221;, my favourite Japanese phrase these days is \u7591\u5fc3\u6697\u9b3c: An idiom whose components literally translate to &#8220;fear &#8211; darkness &#8211; demons&#8221;, beautifully rendered by the Green Goddess into: &#8220;Fear peoples the darkness with monsters&#8221;&#8230; In everyday conversation, it can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21,38,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-quickies","category-25"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3946"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3954,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3946\/revisions\/3954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unknowngenius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}