{"id":6450,"date":"2010-12-11T23:40:45","date_gmt":"2010-12-12T06:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=6450"},"modified":"2023-12-07T17:33:03","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T00:33:03","slug":"bah-humbug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=6450","title":{"rendered":"Bah, Humbug!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We were off to South Coast Repertory to see our 22nd viewing of Scrooge!\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lilesnet.com\/Christmas\/Christmas2010\/2010-12-11_schrooge\/index.htm\"><strong>Please join us!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Did you know?<\/strong> Humbug is an old term meaning hoax or jest. While the term was first described in 1751 as student slang, its etymology is unknown. Its present meaning as an exclamation is closer to &#8216;nonsense&#8217; or &#8216;gibberish&#8217;, while as a noun, a humbug refers to a fraud or impostor, implying an element of unjustified publicity and spectacle. The term is also used for certain types of candy.\u00a0 In modern usage, the word is most associated with Ebenezer Scrooge, a character created by Charles Dickens. His famous reference to Christmas, &#8220;Bah! Humbug!&#8221;, declaring Christmas to be a fraud, is commonly used in stage and television versions of A Christmas Carol.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6452\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lilesnet.com\/Christmas\/Christmas2010\/2010-12-11_schrooge\/index.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6452\" class=\"size-large wp-image-6452\" title=\"scrooge_12-11-2010_vickyvam_009\" src=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/12\/scrooge_12-11-2010_vickyvam_009-450x337.jpg\" alt=\"We are all here!\" width=\"450\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/12\/scrooge_12-11-2010_vickyvam_009-450x337.jpg 450w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/12\/scrooge_12-11-2010_vickyvam_009-150x112.jpg 150w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/12\/scrooge_12-11-2010_vickyvam_009-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/wp-content\/dailydiary\/uploads\/2010\/12\/scrooge_12-11-2010_vickyvam_009.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6452\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wonderful afternoon was had by all!!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were off to South Coast Repertory to see our 22nd viewing of Scrooge!\u00a0 Please join us! Did you know? Humbug is an old term meaning hoax or jest. While the term was first described in 1751 as student slang, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/?p=6450\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,5,24,17,23],"tags":[48,140,41,26,139,143,144],"class_list":["post-6450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dancing","category-family","category-food-and-wine","category-friends","category-theater","tag-christmas","tag-dancing","tag-dining-out","tag-elks-lodge","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-theater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75133,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions\/75133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lilesnet.com\/dailydiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}