{"id":18233,"date":"2020-05-12T09:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18233"},"modified":"2020-05-09T16:48:10","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T23:48:10","slug":"bitterant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2020\/05\/12\/bitterant\/","title":{"rendered":"bitterant"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>According to Wikipedia:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bitterant\">bitterant<\/a> [\u2026] is a chemical that is added to a product to make it smell or taste bitter. Bitterants are commonly used as aversive agents to discourage the inhalation or ingestion of toxic substances.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>This is one of those cases where the meaning was pretty obvious from context; I saw it on a can of air duster (a.k.a. <i>gas duster<\/i>), in a notification that you shouldn\u2019t inhale the contents of the can. But I hadn\u2019t encountered the word before, and I liked it enough that I figured it was worth posting here.<\/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":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18233","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\/18233","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=18233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18234,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18233\/revisions\/18234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}