{"id":868,"date":"2007-11-07T17:04:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-07T17:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/2007\/11\/07\/tech-jargon\/"},"modified":"2007-11-07T17:04:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-07T17:04:18","slug":"tech-jargon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/tech-jargon\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech Jargon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever wonder what a &#8220;foo bar&#8221; is?  Or a kluge?Me neither.But if you ever meet someone who does, point them to the Jargon File.  It is an entity &#8230; a kind of database &#8230; that was started back in the 1970s with continuous updating and maintenance since. It is just geekizoid technobabble jargon, not other jargon. You can find it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/~esr\/jargon\/html\/index.html\">here.<\/a>There are other versions of it available, including one in a tar ball, but interestingly, there are no Diff files. You can also FTP it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catb.org\/~esr\/jargon\/oldversions\/\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you ever wonder what a &#8220;foo bar&#8221; is? Or a kluge?Me neither.But if you ever meet someone who does, point them to the Jargon File. It is an entity &#8230; a kind of database &#8230; that was started back in the 1970s with continuous updating and maintenance since. It is just geekizoid technobabble jargon, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/07\/tech-jargon\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tech Jargon<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[57],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-e0","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}