{"id":6541,"date":"2012-01-20T11:23:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-20T11:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=6541"},"modified":"2012-01-20T11:23:25","modified_gmt":"2012-01-20T11:23:25","slug":"gordon-bennett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=6541","title":{"rendered":"Gordon Bennett!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gordon Bennett!<\/strong> is used as an exclamation of surprise or disbelief. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phrases.org.uk\/meanings\/gordon-bennett.html\">The Phrase Finder<\/a>, it first appeared in print as an exclamation in a 1937 novel by James Curtis &#8211; <em>You&#8217;re in the Racket Too<\/em>, and is possibly a version of the exclamation <strong>Gor blimey!<\/strong>, a euphemistic version of <strong>God blind me!<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>It is also believed that the exclamation is related to one James Gordon Bennett Jr. (1841-1918), a journalist whose father, also James Gordon Bennett, founded the <em>New York Herald<\/em>. JGB Jr. was apparently notorious for his wild lifestyle and extravagant spending and newsworthy stunts.<\/p>\n<p>Is Gordon Bennett! used in other English-speaking countries?<\/p>\n<p>Are toned-down versions of oaths, like Gordon Bennett!, used in other languages?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gordon Bennett! is used as an exclamation of surprise or disbelief. According to The Phrase Finder, it first appeared in print as an exclamation in a 1937 novel by James Curtis &#8211; You&#8217;re in the Racket Too, and is possibly a version of the exclamation Gor blimey!, a euphemistic version of God blind me!. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541","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=6541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}