{"id":35,"date":"2025-07-22T14:37:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T12:37:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laurentchani.com\/?p=35"},"modified":"2025-09-15T17:18:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:18:11","slug":"what-is-my-favorite-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/quel-est-mon-mot-prefere\/","title":{"rendered":"What is my favorite word?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-medium\"><a href=\"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-24-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-24-1-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"A science fiction novelist stands in front of a blackboard covered with words related to emotions and human values, highlighting the word \u201cRELIABILITY?\u201d | A science fiction novelist stands in front of a blackboard covered with words related to emotions and human values, highlighting the word \u201cRELIABILITY?\u201d\" class=\"wp-image-847\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-24-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-24-1-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-24-1.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">If there were to be only one <strong>word<\/strong> to define myself, it would probably be <strong>&quot; perseverance &quot;<\/strong> : a <strong>raw quality<\/strong>, <strong>silent<\/strong>, forged at the<strong>wear and tear of days<\/strong> and to the <strong>friction of reality<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">But if we had to remember the<strong>glow<\/strong> the fairest would be another one <strong>facet<\/strong>, less <strong>spectacular<\/strong> but infinitely <strong>precious<\/strong> : there <strong>reliability<\/strong>. To be there, <strong>keep your word<\/strong>, cross without <strong>flex<\/strong> what others run away from or abandon. It is a <strong>quiet strength<\/strong>, without <strong>noise<\/strong> neither <strong>glow<\/strong>, a <strong>inner compass<\/strong> when everything <strong>wobbles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">There <strong>reliability<\/strong> has nothing to do with <strong>spectacular<\/strong>She doesn&#039;t look big. <strong>noise<\/strong>, does not seek nor <strong>light<\/strong> neither <strong>applause<\/strong>. And yet, she became <strong>rare<\/strong> \u2014 almost one <strong>forgotten virtue<\/strong> in the <strong>tumult<\/strong> of our <strong>hurried time<\/strong>, <strong>volatile<\/strong>, saturated with <strong>pretenses<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Perhaps this is, deep down, what I offer in my <strong>writings<\/strong> : this <strong>discreet constancy<\/strong>, this <strong>loyalty<\/strong> to what I <strong>think<\/strong>, what I <strong>feel<\/strong>, what I decide to <strong>share<\/strong> demon <strong>fertile imagination<\/strong>. A <strong>stable presence<\/strong> in a <strong>world<\/strong> Who <strong>moves constantly and too quickly<\/strong>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S\u2019il ne devait y avoir qu\u2019un mot pour me d\u00e9finir, ce serait sans doute \u00ab pers\u00e9v\u00e9rance \u00bb : une qualit\u00e9 brute, silencieuse, forg\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019usure des jours et aux frottements du r\u00e9el. Mais s\u2019il fallait en retenir l\u2019\u00e9clat le plus juste, ce serait une autre facette, moins spectaculaire mais infiniment pr\u00e9cieuse : la fiabilit\u00e9. \u00catre [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":847,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-infos-pertinentes"],"blocksy_meta":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-24-1.jpg",512,768,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-24-1-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-24-1-200x300.jpg",200,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-24-1.jpg",512,768,false],"large":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-24-1.jpg",512,768,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-24-1.jpg",512,768,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-24-1.jpg",512,768,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-24-1-8x12.jpg",8,12,true],"mailpoet_newsletter_max":["https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/big-daddy-24-1.jpg",512,768,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Laurent CHANI","author_link":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/author\/laurentchojnowski970fe415b2\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"S\u2019il ne devait y avoir qu\u2019un mot pour me d\u00e9finir, ce serait sans doute \u00ab pers\u00e9v\u00e9rance \u00bb : une qualit\u00e9 brute, silencieuse, forg\u00e9e \u00e0 l\u2019usure des jours et aux frottements du r\u00e9el. Mais s\u2019il fallait en retenir l\u2019\u00e9clat le plus juste, ce serait une autre facette, moins spectaculaire mais infiniment pr\u00e9cieuse : la fiabilit\u00e9. \u00catre&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4190,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/4190"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laurentchani.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}