{"id":2172,"date":"2002-02-25T23:24:26","date_gmt":"2002-02-26T04:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2172"},"modified":"2002-02-25T23:24:26","modified_gmt":"2002-02-26T04:24:26","slug":"tlas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/25\/tlas.html","title":{"rendered":"TLAs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Curious about all those TLAs (Three-Letter Acronyms) and abbreviations that all the Cool Internet Users and Chat Room Habitues use so glibly?  Wonder no more, thanks to our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theonion.com\/onion3806\/infograph_3806.html\">The Onion<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><small>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xkot.net\/mt_archives\/001188.html#001188\">Xkot<\/a>)<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curious about all those TLAs (Three-Letter Acronyms) and abbreviations that all the Cool Internet Users and Chat Room Habitues use so glibly? 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