{"id":1513,"date":"2007-05-23T22:37:36","date_gmt":"2007-05-24T01:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1513"},"modified":"2007-05-25T19:28:53","modified_gmt":"2007-05-25T22:28:53","slug":"bommelthing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1513","title":{"rendered":"Bommelthing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Bommelthing<\/u><\/strong><br \/><em>n.<\/em> <strong>1.<\/strong> An obstacle, roadblock, or a barricade, a thing that can&#8217;t be undone without calling in &#8216;reinforcements&#8217;, or &#8216;brute force&#8217;. <strong>2.<\/strong> An explosive situation. <strong>3.<\/strong> A carefully planned trick or question with the goal to upset the people, class, friends or opponents<br \/>\nex &#8211; <em>&#8220;The History teacher set us up a bommelthing with his question about quantum mechanics&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Origin<\/em>: Comes from the Dutch word &#8216;bommelding&#8217; (bomb threat), which, if pronounced differently, can also be a non-existing word (compare &#8220;bom melding&#8221; vs. &#8220;bommel ding&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bommelthingn. 1. An obstacle, roadblock, or a barricade, a thing that can&#8217;t be undone without calling in &#8216;reinforcements&#8217;, or &#8216;brute force&#8217;. 2. An explosive situation. 3. A carefully planned trick or question with the goal to upset the people, class, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1513\">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\/1513"}],"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=1513"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2869,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513\/revisions\/2869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}