{"id":1679,"date":"2011-10-24T23:38:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T06:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloomsight.wordpress.com\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2011-10-24T23:38:11","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T06:38:11","slug":"1679","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/2011\/10\/24\/1679\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToska &#8211; noun \/\u02c8t\u014d-sk\u0259\/ &#8211; Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular cases it may be the desire for somebody of something specific, nostalgia, love-sickness. At the lowest level it grades into ennui, boredom.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2015 Vladimir Nabokov<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToska &#8211; noun \/\u02c8t\u014d-sk\u0259\/ &#8211; Russian word roughly translated as sadness, melancholia, lugubriousness. &#8220;No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4810,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2653,5305,7512,568,131,1764],"class_list":["post-1679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-definitions","tag-emotion","tag-growth","tag-language","tag-literature","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4810"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cchiaen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}