{"id":56047,"date":"2017-04-17T07:00:37","date_gmt":"2017-04-17T11:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uncommongoods.pro\/?p=56047"},"modified":"2017-03-28T15:55:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T19:55:54","slug":"uncommon-knowledge-whats-the-top-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/2017\/uncommon-knowledge-whats-the-top-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncommon Knowledge: What&#8217;s the Top Trend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/desktop-helicone?source=blog_uk_041717\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56128 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/25944_MainCOne.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"650\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From powdered wigs to Beanie Babies, trends come and go. And when they go, they tend to go in one of two directions. Trends that stick (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.levistrauss.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/A-Short-History-of-Denim2.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">blue denim pants<\/a>) become classics, while trends that don\u2019t (e.g. <a href=\"http:\/\/mentalfloss.com\/article\/30215\/hunkerin-americas-most-boring-fad\" target=\"_blank\">hunkerin\u2019<\/a>) are relegated to the quirky realm of fads. Either way, who can keep up? It\u2019s almost like the cycle of trends is constantly spinning. At this point, an etymologist might exclaim, <em>\u201cexactly!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Since the late 18<sup>th<\/sup> century, <em>trend<\/em> has described popular but fleeting phenomena and, apropos to it\u2019s cyclical nature, the word hails from the Old English <em>trendan<\/em>\u2014to rotate or spin. <em>Trendan,<\/em> in turn, is a cognate with the Middle High German word <em>trendel,<\/em> which came to mean a spinning disk or top. If <em>trendel<\/em> sounds vaguely familiar, that may be thanks to a classic Hannukah toy: the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dreidel\" target=\"_blank\"><em>dreidel,<\/em><\/a> possibly related to <em>trendel<\/em> through the linguistic mash-up of Yiddish. Both <em>trendels<\/em> and <em>dreidels<\/em> may trace their ancestry to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artofplay.com\/blogs\/articles\/history-of-spinning-tops\" target=\"_blank\">the <em>teetotum<\/em>,<\/a> a top-like gambling toy introduced to Europe through the Roman Empire. So the term trend itself might be based on a popular diversion that was once all the rage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/product\/desktop-helicone?source=blog_uk_041717\" target=\"_blank\">Desktop Helicone<\/a> | $65<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From powdered wigs to Beanie Babies, trends come and go. And when they go, they tend to go in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1208],"tags":[2314,813],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56047"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56047"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56047\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56270,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56047\/revisions\/56270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uncommongoods.pro\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}