{"id":11907,"date":"2009-02-26T12:38:10","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T20:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2009\/02\/26\/oclock.html"},"modified":"2009-02-26T12:38:10","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T20:38:10","slug":"oclock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2009\/02\/26\/oclock\/","title":{"rendered":"o&#8217;clock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I recently encountered the phrase pattern \"[activity noun x] o'clock\" meaning \"it's time to do x\": once as \"<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intel\/2007\/04\/the_attached_villager.html\">sex o'clock<\/a>\" (link is not work-safe), once as \"pray o'clock\" (in an unpublished story, but the phrase also appears on various web pages).<\/p>\n<p>Googling turns up other phrases with this pattern: \"work o'clock,\" \"study o'clock,\" \"dinner o'clock,\" and so on.<\/p>\n<p>I like it--fun phrase. (Especially \"sex o'clock\" because it's almost a pun.) I wonder how long this has been around--anyone know? I had never seen it before about a week ago. Though it's similar to other non-numeric time identifiers, like the classic military \"oh-dark-hundred.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently encountered the phrase pattern &#8220;[activity noun x] o&#8217;clock&#8221; meaning &#8220;it&#8217;s time to do x&#8221;: once as &#8220;sex o&#8217;clock&#8221; (link is not work-safe), once as &#8220;pray o&#8217;clock&#8221; (in an&#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-11907","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\/11907","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=11907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}