{"id":852,"date":"2012-01-04T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-04T12:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2012\/01\/04\/what-the-heck-wiktionary\/"},"modified":"2012-01-04T12:03:00","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T12:03:00","slug":"what-the-heck-wiktionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2012\/01\/04\/what-the-heck-wiktionary\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;what the heck?&#8221; &#8211; Wiktionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/what_the_heck\">what the heck &#8211; Wiktionary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I seriously hoped, this would be a much nicer phrase than <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/WTF\">WTF<\/a>, but it&#8217;s not;\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/what_the_heck\">its wiktionary article<\/a> explains:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<i>(euphemistic) A &#8220;softer&#8221; way to say &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/what_the_hell\">what the hell?<\/a>&#8220;.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For someone with a vague religious background, replacing &#8220;<i>what the heck<\/i>&#8221; with the well-known\u00a0<i><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/WTF\">WTF<\/a><\/i> is like &#8220;<i>driving out demons by the power of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beelzebub\">Beelzeboul<\/a><\/i>&#8220;. You may want to read this up in the Wikipedia article on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beelzebub\">Beelzebub<\/a>, another way to write <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Beelzebub\">Beelzeboul<\/a>.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>what the heck &#8211; Wiktionary I seriously hoped, this would be a much nicer phrase than WTF, but it&#8217;s not;\u00a0its wiktionary article explains: (euphemistic) A &#8220;softer&#8221; way to say &#8220;what the hell?&#8220;. For someone with a vague religious background, replacing &#8220;what the heck&#8221; with the well-known\u00a0WTF is like &#8220;driving out demons by the power of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-dK","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}