{"id":210,"date":"2014-04-11T16:30:03","date_gmt":"2014-04-11T14:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2014-04-11T16:30:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-11T14:30:03","slug":"idiom-38-speak-of-the-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-38-speak-of-the-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiom 38 &#8211; Speak of the devil&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">We were just talking about Dave and his plans for the holidays when he walked through the door. Speak of the devil&#8230; (Wenn man vom Teufel spricht&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While nowadays this phrase is a light-hearted way of referring to someone who appears as they are being talked about, before the 20th century it wasn&#8217;t light-hearted at all. It comes from the old suspicious belief that it was dangerous to mention the devil by name. Sound familiar to you Harry Potter fans&#8230;?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We were just talking about Dave and his plans for the holidays when he walked through the door. Speak of the devil&#8230; (Wenn man vom Teufel spricht&#8230;) While nowadays this phrase is a light-hearted way of referring to someone who appears as they are being talked about, before the 20th century it wasn&#8217;t light-hearted at [&#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\/210"}],"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=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}