{"id":3571,"date":"2006-06-15T09:13:17","date_gmt":"2006-06-15T16:13:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/06\/15\/lsd.html"},"modified":"2006-06-15T09:13:17","modified_gmt":"2006-06-15T16:13:17","slug":"lsd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/06\/15\/lsd\/","title":{"rendered":"LSD"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I always vaguely wondered how \"lysergic acid diethylamide\" got abbreviated as \"LSD.\"  I think I figured (or had been told) that the S came from \"lySergic,\" but that didn't make much sense.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/LSD\">Wikipedia<\/a>, the acronym is from the German name: \"Lysergs&auml;ure-diethylamid,\" where the S is for \"s&auml;ure.\"<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I always vaguely wondered how &#8220;lysergic acid diethylamide&#8221; got abbreviated as &#8220;LSD.&#8221; I think I figured (or had been told) that the S came from &#8220;lySergic,&#8221; but that didn&#8217;t make&#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":[30,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-acronyms","category-etymology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571","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=3571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}