{"id":10816,"date":"2007-12-27T09:45:14","date_gmt":"2007-12-27T17:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2007\/12\/27\/bunny-boiler.html"},"modified":"2007-12-27T09:45:14","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T17:45:14","slug":"bunny-boiler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2007\/12\/27\/bunny-boiler\/","title":{"rendered":"bunny boiler"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to Wikipedia, a \"<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bunny_boiler\">bunny boiler<\/a>\" is \"an obsessive and dangerous individual, most commonly referring to a jilted lover who is stalking the person who has spurned her or him. [...] The phrase derives from a famous scene in the 1987 film <cite>Fatal Attraction<\/cite> where a scorned woman [...] boils [her ex-lover's] daughter's pet rabbit in a pot.\"<\/p>\n<p>Yikes.<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/meanings\/bunny-boiler.html\">Phrase Finder<\/a>'s entry, which suggests that the term came into popular and widespread use in 1994. Which makes me even more surprised that (I'm pretty sure) I've never encountered it before.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Wikipedia, a &#8220;bunny boiler&#8221; is &#8220;an obsessive and dangerous individual, most commonly referring to a jilted lover who is stalking the person who has spurned her or him&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-to-me-words"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}