{"id":43327,"date":"2022-03-26T22:02:38","date_gmt":"2022-03-26T22:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=43327"},"modified":"2022-03-26T22:02:40","modified_gmt":"2022-03-26T22:02:40","slug":"popular-culture-the-word-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/popular-culture-the-word-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"Popular culture: the word <em>Wow<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Self-tutoring about English and popular culture: the tutor mentions &#8220;Wow.&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>\n&#8220;Wow&#8221; is used a lot these days&#8230;more than I recall it was in the 80s, for instance. To me, there&#8217;s a likely reason.<\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Wow&#8221; has become one of those words that can impart numerous different ideas. In my observation, it less often means simple surprise, anymore; rather more often, it seems to suggest disapproving surprise. There&#8217;s little wonder it would be popular today, when people typically avoid direct communication.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the &#8217;70s, &#8220;Wow&#8221; seemed a much more innocent word than now.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Self-tutoring about English and popular culture: the tutor mentions &#8220;Wow.&#8221; &#8220;Wow&#8221; is used a lot these days&#8230;more than I recall it was in the 80s, for instance. To me, there&#8217;s a likely reason. &#8220;Wow&#8221; has become one of those words &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/popular-culture-the-word-wow\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Popular culture: the word <em>Wow<\/em><\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pop-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43327"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43329,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43327\/revisions\/43329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}