{"id":123,"date":"2007-10-26T16:09:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T13:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2007\/10\/26\/snafu-vs-fubar\/"},"modified":"2007-10-26T16:09:20","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T13:09:20","slug":"snafu-vs-fubar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/2007\/10\/26\/snafu-vs-fubar\/","title":{"rendered":"snafu vs. fubar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is snafu? This is an acronym for &#8220;situation normal, all f***ed up&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What is fubar? This is an acronym for &#8220;f***ed up beyond all recognition&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Both are military terms. I&#8217;ve met them for the first time in this interesting article at <em>CNN.com<\/em> I&#8217;ve dropped at by accident:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2007\/LIVING\/personal\/10\/22\/o.panic.button\/index.html\">http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2007\/LIVING\/personal\/10\/22\/o.panic.button\/index.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two short excerpts from it I liked the most:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is what happens when we hang on to expectations in the face of crisis, and it can turn a snafu into an utterly fubar situation. Working when you&#8217;re sick, you end up in the hospital. Rushing tasks after a slowdown, you drop or break or miscalculate something crucial. Pushing yourself beyond emotional limits, you lash out and damage a relationship.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>and:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I followed them to downtown Boston, where, switching strategies one last time, I caught the subway home. Staying loose and flexible not only got me through a snafu but proved I could run for six straight hours. After that the marathon was a cakewalk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s worth reading! :-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is snafu? This is an acronym for &#8220;situation normal, all f***ed up&#8221;. What is fubar? This is an acronym for &#8220;f***ed up beyond all recognition&#8221;. Both are military terms. I&#8217;ve met them for the first time in this interesting article at CNN.com I&#8217;ve dropped at by accident: http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2007\/LIVING\/personal\/10\/22\/o.panic.button\/index.html Two short excerpts from it I&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.optimiced.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}