{"id":7719,"date":"2012-10-10T16:52:17","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T15:52:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7719"},"modified":"2012-10-10T16:52:17","modified_gmt":"2012-10-10T15:52:17","slug":"pebcac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7719","title":{"rendered":"PEBCAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered an acronym today that is used by IT support types to indicate that the problem is with the user rather than the computer &#8211; PEBCAC, or &#8216;problem exists between computer and chair&#8217;. An alternative version is PEBCAK, or &#8216;problem exists between keyboard and chair&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Related acronyms I found in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/\">Urban Dictionary<\/a> include PEBE, or &#8216;problem exists between ears&#8217;; PEBLARE, or &#8216;problem exists between left and right ear&#8217;, and PEBKAF, or &#8216;problem exists between keypad and floor&#8217; (used by security companies to describe user error).<\/p>\n<p>Have you heard or used any of these? Or any related ones?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered an acronym today that is used by IT support types to indicate that the problem is with the user rather than the computer &#8211; PEBCAC, or &#8216;problem exists between computer and chair&#8217;. An alternative version is PEBCAK, or &#8216;problem exists between keyboard and chair&#8217;. Related acronyms I found in the Urban Dictionary include [&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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719","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=7719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}