{"id":130,"date":"2002-09-23T12:02:04","date_gmt":"2002-09-23T16:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=130"},"modified":"2002-09-23T12:02:04","modified_gmt":"2002-09-23T16:02:04","slug":"epithets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=130","title":{"rendered":"Epithets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VodkaPundit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vodkapundit.com\/archives\/002564.php#002564\">writes<\/a> about using &#8220;SteveCase&#8221; as an obscene epithet to circumvent the AOL chat police, and that works just fine for the standard four-letter epithets. But if you hit your thumb with a hammer, it&#8217;s just not satisfying enough to say &#8220;SteveCase.&#8221; You need something richer, more mellifluous &#8212; something like &#8220;Boutros <b>Boutros<\/b>-Ghali,&#8221; (brief pause between the two Boutroses). Or maybe &#8220;Buttafuoco,&#8221; which enjoyed a brief epithetic vogue in the early 90s, when Joey was making the scene at Moomba. It did. Really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VodkaPundit writes about using &#8220;SteveCase&#8221; as an obscene epithet to circumvent the AOL chat police, and that works just fine for the standard four-letter epithets. But if you hit your thumb with a hammer, it&#8217;s just not satisfying enough to say &#8220;SteveCase.&#8221; You need something richer, more mellifluous &#8212; something like &#8220;Boutros Boutros-Ghali,&#8221; (brief pause <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=130' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}