{"id":17752,"date":"2019-01-29T09:17:09","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T17:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=17752"},"modified":"2019-01-27T16:24:04","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T00:24:04","slug":"bill-name-acronyms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2019\/01\/29\/bill-name-acronyms\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill-name acronyms"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The other day, I heard about my favorite bill-name acronym in ages. The acronym in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/sen-mark-warner-introduces-stop-stupidity-act-aimed-at-preventing-future-shutdowns\/2019\/01\/22\/2bafc150-1e82-11e9-8e21-59a09ff1e2a1_story.html?utm_term=.01c247419fbd\">Stop STUPIDITY Act<\/a> stands for \u201cShutdowns Transferring Unnecessary Pain and Inflicting Damage In The Coming Years.\u201d (One might think that would abbreviate to STUPIDCY or STUPAIDITCY, but one would be wrong.)<\/p>\r\n<p>This replaces my previous favorite bill-name acronym, the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Patriot_Act\">USA PATRIOT Act<\/a>, which stood for \u201cUniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.\u201d (I strongly disliked the act itself, but I was amused by the acronym.)<\/p>\r\n<p>Any other favorite acronyms from bill names?<\/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":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acronyms"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17752","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=17752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17753,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17752\/revisions\/17753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}