{"id":1305,"date":"2003-06-19T05:48:47","date_gmt":"2003-06-19T19:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/19\/weapons-of-mass-destruction\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T10:17:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T18:17:19","slug":"weapons-of-mass-destruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/06\/19\/weapons-of-mass-destruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Weapons of Mass Destruction"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14412,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.benhammersley.com\\\/archives\\\/004805.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20040428105940\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.benhammersley.com:80\\\/archives\\\/004805.html&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 22:14:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 22:14:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benhammersley.com\/archives\/004805.html\" title=\"wmd1\">Ben Hammersley<\/a>, the World Service says that &#8220;&#8230;&#8221;Weapons of Mass Destruction&#8221; was, as far as the OED knows, first used in 1937 by the Archbishop of Canterbury.&#8221; Just thought that was nifty. :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The phrase &#8216;Weapons of Mass Destruction&#8217; was, as far as the OED knows, first used in 1937 by the Archbishop of Canterbury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}