{"id":30,"date":"2003-04-20T22:01:09","date_gmt":"2003-04-21T04:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/?p=30"},"modified":"2003-04-20T22:01:09","modified_gmt":"2003-04-21T04:01:09","slug":"whence-cometh-dibs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/2003\/04\/whence-cometh-dibs\/","title":{"rendered":"Whence cometh &#8216;dibs&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t know how I got on this one, but all of a sudden I had to know where the term &#8216;dibs&#8217; came from (when a person has &#8216;dibs&#8217; they have right of first refusal to<br \/>\nthe subject at hand, eg &#8220;I&#8217;ve got dibs on the drumstick&#8221; means I have the right to eat the drumstick).<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?q=dibs+origin+term\">Googling<\/A> gave me several websites that referenced a 17th centruy game called dibstones that was<br \/>\nplayed with sheep&#8217;s knucklebones (!), in which when a bone was captured, the player cried, &#8220;Dibs!&#8221;  The first recorded American usage, though, isn&#8217;t until the<br \/>\n1930&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>I want my own copy of the <A HREF=\"www.oed.com\">OED<\/A>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t know how I got on this one, but all of a sudden I had to know where the term &#8216;dibs&#8217; came from (when a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":647,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pekNN-u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.joewhite.com\/ramble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}