{"id":16361,"date":"2012-08-06T10:41:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-06T14:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=16361"},"modified":"2018-01-15T18:10:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T23:10:35","slug":"admiral-fisher-an-excitable-sort-of-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/08\/06\/admiral-fisher-an-excitable-sort-of-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Admiral Fisher: an excitable sort of man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Fisher,_1st_Baron_Fisher\" target=\"_blank\">Admiral &#8220;Jackie&#8221; Fisher<\/a> was a major historical figure in the Royal Navy, advocate of the modern dreadnought battleship and a tad high-strung (&#8220;&#8230;and on one occasion, the king asked him to stop shaking his fist in his face&#8221;). His relationship with Winston Churchill at the Admiralty must have been something to observe, as two of the most influential men in London worked together (for a while). After leaving the Admiralty for the last time, he still kept in touch with Churchill. Here is an example of his communication style:<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Fisher-to-Churchill-OMG.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Fisher to Churchill - OMG\" width=\"352\" height=\"392\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Fisher-to-Churchill-OMG.jpg 352w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Fisher-to-Churchill-OMG-134x150.jpg 134w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 352px) 100vw, 352px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is believed to be the first documented use of the now familiar &#8220;OMG&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>H\/T to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LettersOfNote\/statuses\/232479464574029824\" target=\"_blank\">Shaun Usher<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Admiral &#8220;Jackie&#8221; Fisher was a major historical figure in the Royal Navy, advocate of the modern dreadnought battleship and a tad high-strung (&#8220;&#8230;and on one occasion, the king asked him to stop shaking his fist in his face&#8221;). His relationship with Winston Churchill at the Admiralty must have been something to observe, as two of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":""},"categories":[4,1118,7,57,246],"tags":[400,30,213,864],"class_list":["post-16361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britain","category-germany","category-history","category-humour","category-ww1","tag-language","tag-navy","tag-newspapers","tag-winstonchurchill"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-4fT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16364,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16361\/revisions\/16364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}