{"id":7481,"date":"2015-06-23T00:05:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T06:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=7481"},"modified":"2015-06-23T00:05:20","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T06:05:20","slug":"dude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/23\/dude\/","title":{"rendered":"Dude!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of the previous entry, here&#8217;s a fun little video that explores the origin and evolving usage of the word &#8220;dude&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"725\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HMiV5cNdqyU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Just as an aside, the word has a rather personal connotation for me: Back in the theater days, my fellow ushers and I took to calling ourselves &#8220;The Dudes,&#8221; a self-aggrandizing nickname we still use when we refer to each other, and when we send out the invitations to our annual &#8220;Dudes reunion dinner&#8221; around Christmas time.<\/p>\n<p>And of course the video leaves out the most famous modern-day incarnation of dudeness, The Dude himself:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/the-dude-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-7486 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/the-dude-1.jpg\" alt=\"the-dude\" width=\"236\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/the-dude-1.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/the-dude-1-201x300.jpg 201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a>But there might have been some licensing issues there. I still thought it was a pretty interesting little tidbit.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/boingboing.net\/2015\/06\/16\/the-evolution-of-the-word-du.html\">Boing Boing<\/a>, naturally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apropos of the previous entry, here&#8217;s a fun little video that explores the origin and evolving usage of the word &#8220;dude&#8221;: Just as an aside, the word has a rather personal connotation for me: Back in the theater days, my fellow ushers and I took to calling ourselves &#8220;The Dudes,&#8221; a self-aggrandizing nickname we still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-ramblings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}