{"id":2683,"date":"2004-04-07T11:12:38","date_gmt":"2004-04-07T18:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/?p=2683"},"modified":"2004-04-07T11:12:38","modified_gmt":"2004-04-07T18:12:38","slug":"misfortunation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/2004\/04\/07\/misfortunation\/","title":{"rendered":"Misfortunation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got impatient waiting for the bus yesterday, so I started to stroll to the espresso stand a block away.  I wasn&#8217;t really in the mood for coffee, but that wasn&#8217;t the point &#8212; and I knew I wouldn&#8217;t get any anyhow.<\/p>\n<p>Sure enough, the bus arrived just when I was far enough away from the stop that I had to sprint to catch it.<\/p>\n<p>There really ought to be a word for this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><tt><b>Misfortunation<\/b>:  Intentionally transforming a desirable event into an undesirable event in the hopes that your bad luck will cause it to occur.<\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got impatient waiting for the bus yesterday, so I started to stroll to the espresso stand a block away. I wasn&#8217;t really in the mood for coffee, but that wasn&#8217;t the point &#8212; and I knew I wouldn&#8217;t get any anyhow. Sure enough, the bus arrived just when I was far enough away from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neologisms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/defectiveyeti.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}