{"id":23820,"date":"2017-01-20T15:56:53","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T23:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=23820"},"modified":"2017-01-20T15:56:53","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T23:56:53","slug":"slang-then-and-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/slang-then-and-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Slang&#8211;Then and Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/wargam.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Former Secretaries of State &#8220;digging it&#8221; include\u00a0Hillary Clinton, who\u00a0served as FLOTUS (First Lady of the United States)\u00a0and hoped to become PEOTUS\u00a0 (President Elect of the United States), then POTUS (President of the United States).<\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s popular words and phrases are not like they used to be. I recently heard an Oakland man tell a friend he was &#8220;throwing shade&#8221; (insults); a Bellflower woman asked her sister is she heard any &#8220;tea&#8221; (gossip); a Bakersfield politician told his speechwriter he was &#8220;on fleck&#8221; (on-point). I had never heard any of these slang words before. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/culture\/slang.html\">Read more&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Secretaries of State &#8220;digging it&#8221; include\u00a0Hillary Clinton, who\u00a0served as FLOTUS (First Lady of the United States)\u00a0and hoped to become PEOTUS\u00a0 (President Elect of the United States), then POTUS (President of the United States). By C. MacDonald Today&#8217;s popular words and phrases are not like they used to be. I recently heard an Oakland man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23820"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}