{"id":182,"date":"2014-03-26T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=182"},"modified":"2014-03-26T18:42:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-26T16:42:00","slug":"idiom-30-you-cant-have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-30-you-cant-have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiom 30 &#8211; You can&#8217;t have your cake and eat it too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I really like sleeping late in the mornings. But I would also like to start work early so I could finish at 3pm and enjoy my afternoons, but y<em>ou can&#8217;t have your cake and eat it too = Man kann nicht alles haben.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This idiom often confuses people, and would probably be easier to understand if it were flipped around &#8211; you can&#8217;t eat your cake and have it &#8211; which is in fact closer to the original idiom, but is rarely used today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I really like sleeping late in the mornings. But I would also like to start work early so I could finish at 3pm and enjoy my afternoons, but you can&#8217;t have your cake and eat it too = Man kann nicht alles haben. This idiom often confuses people, and would probably be easier to understand [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}