{"id":41953,"date":"2025-02-13T11:03:22","date_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=41953"},"modified":"2025-02-13T11:03:22","modified_gmt":"2025-02-13T17:03:22","slug":"word-of-the-day-1023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/02\/13\/word-of-the-day-1023\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>FAFO<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The phrase is more commonly known as \u201c(Eff) around, find out.\u201d It\u2019s long been used as a Gen X version of warning \u201cactions have consequences, so choose your\u2019s wisely.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It more recently has been shortened to the slightly polite acronym FAFO, but with the same unapologetic caution to know what you\u2019re getting into.<em> [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.app.com\/story\/news\/2025\/01\/27\/what-does-fafo-mean-why-social-media-is-saying-it\/77972654007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Asbury Park Press<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This one has exploded on the scene recently to such an extent it&#8217;s not worth quoting any particular source. It&#8217;s worth noting that every generation has some phrase of rough equivalence, such as <em>Quit horsing around!<\/em>, dating from a more patriarchal era. It&#8217;s no doubt reflective of the home era.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t normally have consecutive WOTD posts, but since the previous post degenerated into a political observation, I figured I got a pass on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAFO: The phrase is more commonly known as \u201c(Eff) around, find out.\u201d It\u2019s long been used as a Gen X version of warning \u201cactions have consequences, so choose your\u2019s wisely.\u201d It more recently has been shortened to the slightly polite acronym FAFO, but with the same unapologetic caution to know \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/02\/13\/word-of-the-day-1023\/\"> 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":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41954,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41953\/revisions\/41954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}