{"id":4143,"date":"2021-09-18T21:51:28","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T01:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/?p=4143"},"modified":"2021-09-18T21:51:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T01:51:29","slug":"woke-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2021\/09\/18\/woke-definition\/","title":{"rendered":"Woke: Definition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Woke was officially\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/public.oed.com\/blog\/june-2017-update-new-words-notes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">added into the Oxford English Dictionary<\/a>\u00a0as an adjective in June 2017.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The dictionary defines it as \u201coriginally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Urban Dictionary, which published its original definition two years prior to the official dictionary, defines it as \u201cbeing woke means being aware\u2026 knowing what\u2019s going on in the community (related to racism and social injustice)\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In other words, it means to be awake to sensitive social issues, such as racism.<\/p><p><\/p><cite>https:\/\/inews.co.uk\/news\/uk\/woke-what-mean-meaning-origins-term-definition-culture-387962<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size\">See the link above for an expanded definition and explanation provided by the Oxford English Dictionary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also more information in the article cited as the source of this quotation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woke was officially\u00a0added into the Oxford English Dictionary\u00a0as an adjective in June 2017. The dictionary defines it as \u201coriginally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice\u201d. The Urban Dictionary, which published its original definition two years prior to the official dictionary, defines it as \u201cbeing woke means being aware\u2026 knowing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2021\/09\/18\/woke-definition\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4143"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4143\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}