{"id":10891,"date":"2008-02-04T22:29:44","date_gmt":"2008-02-05T06:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2008\/02\/04\/bleve.html"},"modified":"2008-02-04T22:29:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-05T06:29:44","slug":"bleve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2008\/02\/04\/bleve\/","title":{"rendered":"BLEVE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On a video about an explosion, I heard an announcer use a term that sounded like \"blevvies.\" I got curious and Googled it; turns out it's an acronym. According to Wikipedia:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>BLEVE, pronounced [...] \"blevvy\"[...], is an acronym for \"boiling liquid expanding vapour explosion\". This is a type of explosion that can occur when a vessel containing a pressurized liquid is ruptured.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On a video about an explosion, I heard an announcer use a term that sounded like &#8220;blevvies.&#8221; I got curious and Googled it; turns out it&#8217;s an acronym. According to&#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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acronyms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10891","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=10891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}