{"id":1056,"date":"2006-04-21T07:12:15","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T11:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2006-04-21T07:12:37","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T11:12:37","slug":"warhead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"Warhead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>warhead<\/u><\/strong><br \/><em>n<\/em> <strong>1.<\/strong> A person who is in a state of delirium or confusion, distraction, after being struck by an epiphany<br \/>\nex &#8211; <em>&#8220;After finishing his quantum physics assignment, Fonzie really looked like a warhead today&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Origin<\/em>: An English adoption of the Dutch word &#8216;warhoofd&#8217;, which has literally nothing to do with the word &#8216;war&#8217; (as in &#8216;hostile conflict&#8217;), but all with the Dutch word of &#8216;war&#8217;, which means &#8216;confusion&#8217; or &#8216;absent-mindedness&#8217;. I also liked the idea of the paradox: people struck by grand ideas are literally nuclear missiles, unstoppable until they&#8217;ve reached their goal. Or, until they go ballistic, I suppose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>warheadn 1. A person who is in a state of delirium or confusion, distraction, after being struck by an epiphany ex &#8211; &#8220;After finishing his quantum physics assignment, Fonzie really looked like a warhead today&#8221; Origin: An English adoption of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1056\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}