{"id":731,"date":"2009-03-27T10:44:59","date_gmt":"2009-03-27T10:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/?p=731"},"modified":"2014-04-11T18:26:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T17:26:03","slug":"snap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/archives\/731","title":{"rendered":"Snap!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a colleague and I sent almost identical emails simultaneously, our instant reaction was to shout &#8220;SNAP!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>looking in various dictionaries both paper and <a href=\"http:\/\/define.com\/snap\">online<\/a>, this use of the word doesn&#8217;t seem to be defined. There are dozens of uses for this heavily overloaded word, but not this one so here goes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Snap<\/strong> interj. &mdash; An exclamation made when two independent events are perceived to be the same. Derived from the children&#8217;s matching-card game where the word us used to claim a win.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a colleague and I sent almost identical emails simultaneously, our instant reaction was to shout &#8220;SNAP!&#8221; looking in various dictionaries both paper and online, this use of the word doesn&#8217;t seem to be defined. There are dozens of uses for this heavily overloaded word, but not this one so here goes&#8230; Snap interj. &mdash; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1732,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/731\/revisions\/1732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/west-penwith.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}