{"id":45421,"date":"2015-06-09T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20150609-00\/?p=45421\/"},"modified":"2019-03-13T12:16:10","modified_gmt":"2019-03-13T19:16:10","slug":"20150609-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20150609-00\/?p=45421","title":{"rendered":"Bitter or acerbic? or does it make a difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of my colleagues told me that my name came up in conversation, and somebody said that they thought I had a reputation for being bitter. <\/p>\n<p>My colleague defended me. &#8220;Nah, Raymond isn&#8217;t bitter. He&#8217;s, I dunno, acerbic.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Acerbic? What does that mean?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>My colleague <a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.bing.com\/Dictionary\/search?q=define+acerbic&amp;qpvt=acerbic&amp;FORM=DTPDIA\">looked it up<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It means, um&#8230; bitter.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What does that word mean?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103,106],"class_list":["post-45421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer","tag-the-social-skills-of-a-thermonuclear-device"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>What does that word mean?<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}