{"id":32656,"date":"2023-04-26T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/p\/some-fun-thoughts-on-the-word-ox#id32774"},"modified":"2023-04-26T14:13:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-26T14:13:00","slug":"some-fun-thoughts-on-the-word-ox-a-word-that-for-many-of-us-is-both-familiar-and-strange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/some-fun-thoughts-on-the-word-ox-a-word-that-for-many-of-us-is-both-familiar-and-strange\/","title":{"rendered":"Some fun thoughts on the word ox, \u201ca word that, for many of us, is both familiar and strange.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote>\n<p>How often have you, driving by a pasture, said &ldquo;Look at the oxen&rdquo;? If you&rsquo;re like me, zero times. We&rsquo;re more likely to use ox as a word for a person who is unusually strong, stupid, or (probably) both: in one sense, an ox is a moron.<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/sesquiotic.com\/2023\/04\/20\/ox\/\">&#x021A9;&#xFE0E; Sesquiotica<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themorningnews.org\/p\/some-fun-thoughts-on-the-word-ox\">View Post &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        How often have you, driving by a pasture, said &ldquo;Look at the oxen&rdquo;? If you&rsquo;re like me, zero times. We&rsquo;re more likely to use ox as a word for a person who is unusually strong, stupid, or (probably) b&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32657,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32656\/revisions\/32657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}