{"id":43466,"date":"2014-07-10T11:38:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T17:38:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/whelmed.html"},"modified":"2014-07-10T13:42:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T19:42:57","slug":"whelmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/10\/whelmed.html","title":{"rendered":"Whelmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"gpb-content\">I knew there was a root word <i>whelm<\/i> for &quot;overwhelmed&quot; and &quot;underwhelmed&quot;. \u00a0I did not know (until I read\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/qa\/qa-whe1.htm\">http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/qa\/qa-whe1.htm<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.word-detective.com\/030600.html#overwhelm\">http:\/\/www.word-detective.com\/030600.html#overwhelm<\/a>) that &quot;underwhelmed&quot; was such a recent creation (and initially a joke word at that).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reshared post from +<a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/103857516920514021575'>David Sarachman<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>I&#39;m Whelmed<\/b><\/p>\n<p>I&#39;ve always wondered this myself.<\/p>\n<p> <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23overwhelmed\">#overwhelmed<\/a>   <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23underwhelmed\">#underwhelmed<\/a>   <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23youngjustice\">#youngjustice<\/a>   <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"ot-hashtag\" href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/s\/%23geek\">#geek<\/a> \u00a0\ufeff<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div class='gpb-photo-primary'><img src='https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/-6s-FEb4Yey4\/U76c4kImMbI\/AAAAAAAA-CI\/_fMJFHJI7ag\/tumblr_inline_n3skusiIH81stue6q.png?imgmax=1024' border='0' style='max-width:100%;' \/><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class='gpb-links' style='clear:both;'> <a class='gpb-linkback' href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/8h2Xq115HqW' target='_new'>View this post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I knew there was a root word whelm for &quot;overwhelmed&quot; and &quot;underwhelmed&quot;. \u00a0I did not know (until I read\u00a0http:\/\/www.worldwidewords.org\/qa\/qa-whe1.htm and http:\/\/www.word-detective.com\/030600.html#overwhelm) that &quot;underwhelmed&quot; was such a recent creation (and initially a joke word at that). 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