{"id":7171,"date":"2016-11-29T09:08:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T15:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7171"},"modified":"2016-11-29T09:08:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-29T15:08:27","slug":"who-is-the-genius-behind-merriam-websters-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7171","title":{"rendered":"Who is the Genius Behind Merriam-Webster\u2019s Social Media?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/who-is-the-genius-behind-merriam-websters-social-media\/\">Emily Temple<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In case you hadn\u2019t noticed, Merriam-Webster\u2019s Twitter game is strong\u2014topical, funny, smart, and informative while also being relentlessly irreverent. Not what you\u2019d necessarily expect from the social media account of a dictionary. (This is putting aside the fact that we now generally expect things like dictionaries to have social media accounts, of course.) But if you were ever a nerd who thought of the dictionary as your best friend (just me?)\u2014well, this is sort of like that dictionary has finally come to life and loves you back and also tweets about words all the time. To find out more about this glorious sentient dictionary, I reached out to the folks behind the tweets to ask them about words, social media, and the place of dictionaries in 2016.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Emily Temple In case you hadn\u2019t noticed, Merriam-Webster\u2019s Twitter game is strong\u2014topical, funny, smart, and informative while also being relentlessly irreverent. Not what you\u2019d necessarily expect from the social media account of a dictionary. (This is putting aside the fact that we now generally expect things like dictionaries to have social media accounts, of course.) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7171"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7172,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171\/revisions\/7172"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}