{"id":86,"date":"2006-08-04T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-04T07:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=86"},"modified":"2006-08-04T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-04T07:27:00","slug":"wormsoapy-cock-poetry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wormsoapy-cock-poetry\/","title":{"rendered":"Wormsoapy cock poetry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a <i>passaverdura<\/i> in Italy.  In Italian, it reasonably enough tells me to &#8220;lavare bene prima dell&#8217;uso&#8221; &ndash; which in English has become &#8220;before first use, wash in wormsoapy water&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That reminds me of a friend of my dad, \u00d6tz, who wanted to buy a gasket for his tap.  In German, a gasket is called a <i>Dichtung<\/i>, and <i>Hahn<\/i> means both tap and cock, so he reportedly asked for <i>una poesia di gallo d&#8217;acqua<\/i>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought a passaverdura in Italy. In Italian, it reasonably enough tells me to &#8220;lavare bene prima dell&#8217;uso&#8221; &ndash; which in English has become &#8220;before first use, wash in wormsoapy water&#8221;. That reminds me of a friend of my dad, \u00d6tz, who wanted to buy a gasket for his tap. In German, a gasket is called a Dichtung, and Hahn means both tap and cock, so he reportedly asked for una poesia di gallo d&#8217;acqua!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[158,159,113,114,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-de","category-en","category-humour","category-computing","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","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=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}