{"id":2146,"date":"2010-01-12T18:14:19","date_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2010-01-12T18:14:19","modified_gmt":"2010-01-12T18:14:19","slug":"are-you-nang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=2146","title":{"rendered":"Are you nang?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The word nang was mentioned the other day on a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/iplayer\/episode\/b00psp5r\/History_of_Now_The_Story_of_the_Noughties_Growing_Young\/\">programme about the Noughties <\/a>on the BBC. It has apparently entered London slang, means &#8216;cool&#8217; or &#8216;good&#8217; and comes from the name of a Vietnamese kid at a school in Hackney, London (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=nang\">source<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>Have you heard this word before?<\/p>\n<p>What word(s) do you use for cool\/good?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word nang was mentioned the other day on a programme about the Noughties on the BBC. It has apparently entered London slang, means &#8216;cool&#8217; or &#8216;good&#8217; and comes from the name of a Vietnamese kid at a school in Hackney, London (source). Have you heard this word before? What word(s) do you use for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,76,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-vietnamese","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}