{"id":555,"date":"2012-04-19T00:55:44","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T05:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeanschara.com\/?p=555"},"modified":"2018-07-23T15:31:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T20:31:28","slug":"q-is-for-quirkiness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/q-is-for-quirkiness\/","title":{"rendered":"Q is for Quirkiness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post brought to you by @ToriDeaux on Twitter, who likely has no idea I&#8217;m crediting her with it.\u00a0 She has done a number of tweets about Quirky Business (which I confess to not really understanding the context for), but the term stuck in my mind, so I thought I&#8217;d examine it here.<\/p>\n<p>Quirkiness, a strange attitude or habit; oddity.\u00a0 In polite terms, something which brings uniqueness to a person, place, or object.\u00a0 Generally speaking, quirkiness is used to describe some quaint oddity about a person.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not usually a term used to describe serious character flaws.\u00a0 It may be endearing or mildly off-putting, but it typically won&#8217;t get the perpetrator banned from a location or put into jail.\u00a0 Unless the person describing the activity is going for massive understatement.<\/p>\n<p>Are you aware of any of your quirks?\u00a0 I&#8217;m sure I have them, but I couldn&#8217;t say what they are.\u00a0 If you know me, what quirks have you observed that I have?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post brought to you by @ToriDeaux on Twitter, who likely has no idea I&#8217;m crediting her with it.\u00a0 She has done a number of tweets about Quirky Business (which I confess to not really understanding the context for), but the term stuck in my mind, so I thought I&#8217;d <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/q-is-for-quirkiness\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-z-challenge"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}