{"id":17463,"date":"2018-06-04T13:15:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-04T20:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17463"},"modified":"2018-06-04T13:15:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T20:15:40","slug":"heroin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2018\/06\/04\/heroin\/","title":{"rendered":"heroin"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>I was surprised just now to learn that the word <i>heroin<\/i> derives from the trademarked name <i>Heroin<\/i>, and that the latter name was based on the Latin for \u201chero,\u201d because the drug made users feel like heroes.<\/p>\r\n<p>I initially assumed that that was folk etymology (remember: etymology by sound is not sound etymology), but the <cite>OED<\/cite> confirms it.<\/p>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17463","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=17463"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17464,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17463\/revisions\/17464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}