{"id":10948,"date":"2014-11-19T12:01:39","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T20:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=10948"},"modified":"2014-11-19T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T20:01:01","slug":"oxford-english-dictionarys-2014-word-of-the-year-vape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10948","title":{"rendered":"Oxford English Dictionary&#8217;s 2014 Word of the Year: &#8216;Vape&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/VapingMods.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">Well, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2014-11-19\/vape-named-as-oxford-english-dictionarys-2014-word-of-the-year\/5901622\">this<\/a> seems a very good omen&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">The Oxford English Dictionary named &#8220;vape&#8221; &#8211; the word used for the act of drawing on an electronic cigarette instead of a burning stick of tobacco &#8211; as its 2014 word of the year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are 30 times more likely to come across the word vape than you were two years ago, and usage has more than doubled in the past year,&#8221; Oxford staff editors said.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe apparent rise of e-cigarettes was cited as the reason for the skyrocketing use of the word, along with countless debates over the safety of using the devices long term.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The word, <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.oxforddictionaries.com\/2014\/11\/oxford-dictionaries-word-year-vape\/\">according to the Oxford editors<\/a>, was only <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oxforddictionaries.com\/definition\/english\/vape\">added to OxfordDictionaries.com<\/a> in August of this year. A bit slow there, chaps.<\/p>\n<p>All in all though, very good news &#8212; no matter how much the tobacco and pharmaceutical industries (and <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=10525\">their acolytes<\/a>) try to undermine progress towards a vastly healthier world. Vape on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, this seems a very good omen&#8230; The Oxford English Dictionary named &#8220;vape&#8221; &#8211; the word used for the act of drawing on an electronic cigarette instead of a burning stick of tobacco &#8211; as its 2014 word of the year. &#8220;You are 30 times more likely to come across the word vape than you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[696],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-10948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vapinge-cigs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10948"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=10948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}