{"id":101,"date":"2009-03-18T23:07:05","date_gmt":"2009-03-19T04:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/18\/word-of-the-day-sprezzaturra\/"},"modified":"2009-03-18T23:07:05","modified_gmt":"2009-03-19T04:07:05","slug":"word-of-the-day-sprezzaturra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/18\/word-of-the-day-sprezzaturra\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day &#8211; Sprezzaturra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Baldassare_Castiglione\">Baldassare Castiglione<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Book_of_the_Courtier\">Book of the Courtier<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Simply, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sprezzatura\">sprezzaturra<\/a> is the ability to appear to succeed without effort, to have &#8220;an easy facility in accomplishing difficult actions which hides the conscious effort that went into them&#8221; or to appear &#8216;artfully artless&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the art of appearing extremely capable, of hiding the effort behind one&#8217;s actions and achievements, and never letting on that you might be anything less than supremely confident. It&#8217;s something we all strive for in some domain, be it effortless creating culinary masterpieces, dancing a perfect tango, or walking a tightrope. I wouldn&#8217;t go so far as to say that it&#8217;s the main reason all of us spend effort learning skills, particularly ones that aren&#8217;t of practical use, but I do think it&#8217;s intrinsically human to get a certain thrill whenever you apply effort, succeed, and have someone say &#8220;Oh, you make it look so easy..&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>via a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/index.php\/talks\/virginia_postrel_on_glamour.html\">TED talk by Virginia Postrel<\/a> on glamour.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=ed0ae4ec-1688-4e42-bea1-89f0a43c28bc\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Baldassare Castiglione&#8216;s Book of the Courtier. Simply, sprezzaturra is the ability to appear to succeed without effort, to have &#8220;an easy facility in accomplishing difficult actions which hides the conscious effort that went into them&#8221; or to appear &#8216;artfully artless&#8217;. It&#8217;s the art of appearing extremely capable, of hiding the effort behind one&#8217;s actions\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/18\/word-of-the-day-sprezzaturra\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meme-hazard.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}