{"id":246,"date":"2014-04-29T10:59:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T08:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=246"},"modified":"2014-04-29T10:59:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T08:59:45","slug":"idiom-45-neck-of-the-woods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-45-neck-of-the-woods\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiom 45 &#8211; Neck of the woods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have a favour to ask you. My car is being repaired, so I was wondering if you could give me a lift to work tomorrow. I thought because we start at the same time and live in the same <em>neck of the woods (Gegend \/ Nachbarschaft)<\/em>, it wouldn&#8217;t be too much trouble for you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Originally &#8222;neck of the woods&#8220; referred to a narrow stretch of woods or forest. It then took the meaning of a settlement in such an area. This then changed again to mean any area where people live.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a favour to ask you. My car is being repaired, so I was wondering if you could give me a lift to work tomorrow. I thought because we start at the same time and live in the same neck of the woods (Gegend \/ Nachbarschaft), it wouldn&#8217;t be too much trouble for you. [&#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\/246"}],"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=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}