{"id":3643,"date":"2006-08-29T08:55:36","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T15:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2006\/08\/29\/railfan-1.html"},"modified":"2006-08-29T08:55:36","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T15:55:36","slug":"railfan-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2006\/08\/29\/railfan-1\/","title":{"rendered":"railfan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Wikipedia entry for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Railfan\">railfan<\/a> contains a small trove of unfamiliar-to-me words.<\/p>\n<p>The term itself has the meaning you'd probably expect: someone who's interested in railroads. But the article also defines such terms as \"FRN\" (Fucking Rail Nut); \"grizzers,\" \"gricers,\" and \"gunzels\" (all terms for railfans); \"bashers\" (who like actually riding the trains); \"stoats\" and \"veg,\" who spend their time mainly at one station; and more.<\/p>\n<p>See also the articles on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_US_railfan_jargon\">US railfan jargon<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_UK_railfan_jargon\">UK railfan jargon<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikipedia entry for railfan contains a small trove of unfamiliar-to-me words. The term itself has the meaning you&#8217;d probably expect: someone who&#8217;s interested in railroads. But the article also&#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-3643","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\/3643","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=3643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}