{"id":180,"date":"2011-07-29T13:33:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T11:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=180"},"modified":"2020-06-17T18:07:28","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T16:07:28","slug":"what-a-vater-does","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"What a Vater does"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was teaching German in England, my students soon let me know which were their favourite German words:\u00a0<em>Kugelschreiber, B\u00fcstenhalter<\/em> and\u00a0<em>Vater<\/em>. They liked\u00a0<em>Kugelschreiber<\/em>, I assume, because it was so nice and complicated in a very German kind of way, they liked\u00a0<em>B\u00fcstenhalter<\/em>, I assume, because it seemed so logical, and they liked\u00a0<em>Vater<\/em>, I assume, because the pronunciation of the word reminded them of an English word not at all related with this word. Unwittingly, I added a fourth one a little later when I introduced the German word for gloves. I got this reaction: \u201cHandschuhe? Handschuhe! Handschuhe, ha, ha! Shoes for the hands! The Germans wear shoes on their hands!\u201d I admit I had never realised we did.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was teaching German in England, my students soon let me know which were their favourite German words:\u00a0Kugelschreiber, B\u00fcstenhalter and\u00a0Vater. They liked\u00a0Kugelschreiber, I assume, because it was so nice and complicated in a very German kind of way, they &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=180\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[481,28],"tags":[553,555,554,552],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6050,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/6050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}