{"id":86344,"date":"2025-06-21T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-21T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/where-exactly-did-the-slang-phrase-digging-it-come-from\/"},"modified":"2025-06-21T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-21T17:11:00","slug":"where-exactly-did-the-slang-phrase-digging-it-come-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/where-exactly-did-the-slang-phrase-digging-it-come-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where exactly did the slang phrase &#8220;digging it&#8221; come from"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From EtymOnline:. In 19c. U.S. student slang it meant &#8220;study hard, give much time to study&#8221; (1827); the 20c. slang sense of &#8220;understand&#8221; is recorded by 1934 in African-American vernacular.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/471982\/where-exactly-did-the-slang-phrase-digging-it-come-from\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/471982\/where-exactly-did-the-slang-phrase-digging-it-come-from<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From EtymOnline:. In 19c. U.S. student slang it meant &#8220;study hard, give much time to study&#8221; (1827); the 20c. slang sense of &#8220;understand&#8221; is recorded&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sapiosexual","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sapiosexual\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}