{"id":1730,"date":"2006-12-06T18:24:06","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T23:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/pjones\/wordpress\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2006-12-06T18:24:06","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T23:24:06","slug":"word-of-the-day-transfatwa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/word-of-the-day-transfatwa\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day &#8211; TransFatWa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered or possibly imagined by David Harrison, a unrediscoverable headline reading &#8220;<strong>New York TransFatWa<\/strong>.&#8221; As in &#8220;New York City health authorities voted unanimously on Tuesday to ban the use of artificial cooking oils, known as trans fats, in the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eateries [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn10737-new-york-eateries-must-scrap-trans-fats.html\">actual wording in NewScientist<\/a>]; in doing so they have declared a <strong>TransFatWa<\/strong> [imagined portion with great new word].<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Discovered or possibly imagined by David Harrison, a unrediscoverable headline reading &#8220;New York TransFatWa.&#8221; As in &#8220;New York City health authorities voted unanimously on Tuesday to ban the use of artificial cooking oils, known as trans fats, in the city\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eateries [actual wording in NewScientist]; in doing so they have declared a TransFatWa [imagined portion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}