{"id":3964,"date":"2012-08-14T13:50:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T17:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/?p=3964"},"modified":"2012-08-14T13:50:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T17:50:42","slug":"sledgehammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/sledgehammer\/","title":{"rendered":"sledgehammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/cag1212_0975_sledgehammer.jpg\" alt=\"railroad track weld\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.buckinghambranch.com\/\">Buckingham Branch<\/a> employee sledgehammers slag off a new track weld between 1st and 2nd Street northeast in Charlottesville Virginia.<br \/>\nDictionary.com lists no synonyms for <strong>sledgehammer<\/strong>.<br \/>\nThe word sledgehammer is derived from the Anglo Saxon &#8220;Slaegan&#8221;, which, in its first sense, means &#8220;to strike violently&#8221;. The English words &#8220;slag&#8221;, &#8220;slay&#8221;, and &#8220;slog&#8221; are cognate.&#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sledgehammer\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=N1tTN-b5KHg\">Peter Gabriel<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vQh112HQsoE\">Percy Sledge<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofchicago.org\/city\/en\/depts\/mayor.html\">Rahm Emanuel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buckingham Branch employee sledgehammers slag off a new track weld between 1st and 2nd Street northeast in Charlottesville Virginia. Dictionary.com lists no synonyms for sledgehammer. The word sledgehammer is derived from the Anglo Saxon &#8220;Slaegan&#8221;, which, in its first sense, means &#8220;to strike violently&#8221;. The English words &#8220;slag&#8221;, &#8220;slay&#8221;, and &#8220;slog&#8221; are cognate.&#8211;Wikipedia Peter Gabriel &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/sledgehammer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;sledgehammer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dictionary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3964"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3967,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3964\/revisions\/3967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/billemory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}