{"id":258,"date":"2007-01-21T23:55:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=258"},"modified":"2007-01-21T23:55:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T22:55:00","slug":"sarcasmirony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/sarcasmirony\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarcasm\/irony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something that is common to Scotland and Denmark is a love for sarcasm\/irony (I always get these terms mixed up, possibly because so many other people are mixing them up &ndash; what I mean is saying the opposite of what is meant, without any explicit clues that this is the case).  I know that Austrians do it, too, but I&#8217;ve also noticed that people from East Germany, the USA and Japan (and France according to Phyllis) don&#8217;t have a clue.  I tried to find something about this on Google, but to no avail.  Surely somebody must have made a world map of sarcasm?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something that is common to Scotland and Denmark is a love for sarcasm\/irony (I always get these terms mixed up, possibly because so many other people are mixing them up &ndash; what I mean is saying the opposite of what is meant, without any explicit clues that this is the case). I know that Austrians do it, too, but I&#8217;ve also noticed that people from East Germany, the USA and Japan (and France according to Phyllis) don&#8217;t have a clue. I tried to find something about this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[94,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}