{"id":1962,"date":"2009-08-21T08:37:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T12:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/?p=1962"},"modified":"2020-05-09T15:04:47","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T19:04:47","slug":"neologisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/2009\/08\/21\/neologisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Neologisms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Washington Post holds a neologism contest each year &#8230; asking readers to supply new meanings for common words. You are welcome to use Google to find the entire list &#8230; but a couple reduced me to uncontrolled giggles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>1. Coffee (n.), the person upon whom one coughs.<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean &#8230; <strong>yes<\/strong>. Also:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><code>4. Esplanade (v.), to attempt an explanation while drunk.<\/code>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post holds a neologism contest each year &#8230; asking readers to supply new meanings for common words. You are welcome to use Google to find the entire list &#8230; but a couple reduced me to uncontrolled giggles: 1. Coffee (n.), the person upon&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61,55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-just-bloggin","category-silly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwan.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}