{"id":11719,"date":"2019-11-26T20:24:27","date_gmt":"2019-11-27T01:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=11719"},"modified":"2019-11-27T14:15:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-27T19:15:44","slug":"what-does-burging-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/11\/26\/what-does-burging-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"What does burging mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AW11262019-01.jpg\" alt=\"What does burging mean?\" class=\"wp-image-11718\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AW11262019-01.jpg 500w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AW11262019-01-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AW11262019-01-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/AW11262019-01-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><figcaption>What does burging mean?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve found such a wide variety of definitions that it must be one of many obscure and recently coined words that&#8217;s either highly situation-specific or has hopped into the meme and\/or trolling-the-urban-dictionary category. Pre-internet, groups of people coined new words all the time; those words had brief, anonymous, unheralded lives. Now that those brief coinages get wider play on sites like Urban Dictionary, it&#8217;s become a game to try to boost their usage. If you&#8217;re playing that game, good luck! May &#8220;burging&#8221; be the next &#8220;yeet,&#8221; or if it really hits the big time, &#8220;jawn.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found such a wide variety of definitions that it must be one of many obscure and recently coined words that&#8217;s either highly situation-specific or has hopped into the meme and\/or trolling-the-urban-dictionary category. Pre-internet, groups of people coined new words all the time; those words had brief, anonymous, unheralded lives. Now that those brief coinages &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/11\/26\/what-does-burging-mean\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What does burging mean?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[925],"class_list":["post-11719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","tag-burging"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11725,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11719\/revisions\/11725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}