{"id":36453,"date":"2024-09-01T00:01:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T04:01:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=36453"},"modified":"2024-09-01T00:01:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T04:01:44","slug":"wtf-is-yak-shaving-or-shaving-a-yak-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=36453","title":{"rendered":"wtf is &#8220;yak shaving&#8221; or &#8220;shaving a yak&#8221; mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I think i heard it first from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/seths.blog\/2005\/03\/dont_shave_that\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seth  ????<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Origin per <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/yak_shaving#Etymology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">WikiDictionary<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/yak-shaving-Wiktionary-2024-08-31_23-57-08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"732\" height=\"550\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/yak-shaving-Wiktionary-2024-08-31_23-57-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36457\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/yak-shaving-Wiktionary-2024-08-31_23-57-08.jpg 732w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/yak-shaving-Wiktionary-2024-08-31_23-57-08-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/yak-shaving-Wiktionary-2024-08-31_23-57-08-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/yak-shaving-Wiktionary-2024-08-31_23-57-08-675x507.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/yak-shaving-Wiktionary-2024-08-31_23-57-08-480x360.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 732px) 100vw, 732px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A few comics on the subject:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/joke-Yak_shaving-1024x590.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/joke-Yak_shaving-1024x590.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"36456\" class=\"wp-image-36456\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/joke-Yak_shaving-1024x590.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/joke-Yak_shaving-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/joke-Yak_shaving-768x442.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/joke-Yak_shaving-1536x885.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/joke-Yak_shaving-750x432.jpg 750w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/joke-Yak_shaving-1226x706.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/joke-Yak_shaving-675x389.jpg 675w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/joke-Yak_shaving.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/xkcd-yak-shaving-success.png.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"550\" height=\"947\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/xkcd-yak-shaving-success.png.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"36458\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/xkcd-yak-shaving-success.png.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?attachment_id=36458\" class=\"wp-image-36458\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/xkcd-yak-shaving-success.png.jpg 550w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/xkcd-yak-shaving-success.png-174x300.jpg 174w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think i heard it first from Seth ???? Origin per WikiDictionary&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[601,2037],"class_list":["post-36453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-wtf","tag-yak-shaving","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36453"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36459,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36453\/revisions\/36459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}