{"id":1555,"date":"2026-09-08T21:34:20","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/?p=1555"},"modified":"2026-09-08T21:34:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T18:34:20","slug":"1555","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/?p=1555","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<pre class=\"wp-block-preformatted has-system-sans-serif-font-family\">We need a word to describe a feeling when you want something, but not really. Or you want it, but you don't want to live with it having been done even more. <br><br>The feeling of a woman loving her man too much and wanting him to strike her, the feeling of a man seeing an inept little kitten and wanting to yeet it off a wide bridge into a river, the feeling of looking over a lofty precipice and wanting to topple over and embrace the fall.<br><br>(Apparently, there is something, called \"velleity,\" \"a mere wish, unaccompanied by an effort to obtain it.\" Thank you, AI.)<br><br>Some people say English is so wonderful not because it has many overall words, but because it has many everyday words.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sVT2btZjYlM\n\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=sVT2btZjYlM<br><\/a><br>And it well may be true, but I still see the gaps all the time, and wish to fill them fervently.<br><br>There is some magic in naming things. It's like when the thing gets <em>*really*<\/em> born. It's like having a superpower to see ghosts.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We need a word to describe a feeling when you want something, but not really. Or you want it, but you don&#8217;t want to live with it having been done even more. The feeling of a woman loving her man too much and wanting him to strike her, the feeling of a man seeing an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1556,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1555\/revisions\/1556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diurnsky.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}