{"id":11759,"date":"2012-07-30T06:00:13","date_gmt":"2012-07-30T11:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=11759"},"modified":"2012-07-30T06:00:13","modified_gmt":"2012-07-30T11:00:13","slug":"a-program-whose-name-means-what-it-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/30\/a-program-whose-name-means-what-it-says\/","title":{"rendered":"A Program Whose Name Means What It Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In New York City, a new program is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nypost.com\/p\/news\/local\/mayor_knows_breast_WqU1iYRQvwbEkDuvn0vb1H\" target=\"_blank\">Latch On NYC Initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Strangely, it means it literally, not figuratively.<\/p>\n<p>Still, it&#8217;s the best program name for an overweening (ahut<super>*<\/super>) government program I&#8217;ve ever seen.<\/p>\n<p>(Link seen <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/headlines\/archives\/2012\/07\/29\/bloombergs-nannyism-its-come-to-this\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hot Air<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p><super>*<\/super> <em>ahut<\/em> represents a vocalization my sainted mother used to make whenever she made a pun or some bit of humor.  It was a sort of throat semi-clearing rimshot she used to signify <em>pun intended<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In New York City, a new program is called Latch On NYC Initiative. Strangely, it means it literally, not figuratively. Still, it&#8217;s the best program name for an overweening (ahut*) government program I&#8217;ve ever seen. (Link seen Hot Air.) * ahut represents a vocalization my sainted mother used to make whenever she made a pun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11759"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11762,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11759\/revisions\/11762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}