{"id":246,"date":"2011-07-29T13:48:06","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T11:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=246"},"modified":"2020-06-17T20:16:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T18:16:31","slug":"hot-air-from-the-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=246","title":{"rendered":"Hot air from the pistol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of my favourite words from other languages: In Greek, the word for a threshold is <em>katofli<\/em>, and I imagine sentences such as \u201cShe was standing on the katofli\u201d, or \u201cShe stumbled over the katofli\u201d. Also in Greek, the word for a hair-dryer is <em>pistolaki<\/em>, which I think is wonderfully plausible. In Italian, scrambled eggs are <em>uova strapazzate<\/em>. Poor eggs! My all time favourite, however, is the Spanish word for handcuffs. It is <em>esposas<\/em>, &#8216;spouses&#8217;, &#8216;wives&#8217;, which, besides being fun, has the additional charm of being politically incorrect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are some of my favourite words from other languages: In Greek, the word for a threshold is katofli, and I imagine sentences such as \u201cShe was standing on the katofli\u201d, or \u201cShe stumbled over the katofli\u201d. Also in Greek, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/?p=246\">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":[462,481,28],"tags":[614,612,613,616,615,87],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246"}],"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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11004,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/11004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pregonero.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}