{"id":484352,"date":"2026-05-26T02:47:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/why-does-blue-blazes-specify-the-color-blue-and-what-is-the-origin\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T02:47:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T02:47:00","slug":"why-does-blue-blazes-specify-the-color-blue-and-what-is-the-origin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/why-does-blue-blazes-specify-the-color-blue-and-what-is-the-origin\/","title":{"rendered":"Why does &#8220;blue blazes&#8221; specify the color blue, and what is the origin &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikipedia article on sulfur confirms the flame color: Sulfur burns with a blue flame with formation of sulfur dioxide, which has a suffocating and irritating odor. But is that the original rationale for &#8220;blue blazes&#8221;? Also, when and where did the earliest recorded instances of &#8220;blue blazes&#8221; and &#8220;blue blazes of hell&#8221; occur?<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/529891\/why-does-blue-blazes-specify-the-color-blue-and-what-is-the-origin-of-this-ex\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/english.stackexchange.com\/questions\/529891\/why-does-blue-blazes-specify-the-color-blue-and-what-is-the-origin-of-this-ex<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wikipedia article on sulfur confirms the flame color: Sulfur burns with a blue flame with formation of sulfur dioxide, which has a suffocating and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-484352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zurich","wpcat-8-id"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livelycity.com\/switzerland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}