{"id":3776,"date":"2007-01-01T12:42:15","date_gmt":"2007-01-01T20:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/neology\/2007\/01\/01\/grog.html"},"modified":"2007-01-01T12:42:15","modified_gmt":"2007-01-01T20:42:15","slug":"grog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2007\/01\/01\/grog\/","title":{"rendered":"grog"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sarah told me she was groggy this afternoon, and I asked \"From too much grog?\" and the ensuing discussion led me to realize I didn't know where the word \"grog\" came from.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, believe it or not, that it's an eponym: comes from \"Old Grog,\" the \"nickname of Edward Vernon [...,] English admiral responsible for diluting the sailors' rum.\"  Says MW11.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there's also the question of why Vernon was known as Old Grog.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, hoping your New Year is as ungroggy as can be reasonably expected.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah told me she was groggy this afternoon, and I asked &#8220;From too much grog?&#8221; and the ensuing discussion led me to realize I didn&#8217;t know where the word &#8220;grog&#8221;&#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":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-etymology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776","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=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}