{"id":268,"date":"2014-05-13T17:16:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2014-05-13T17:18:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T15:18:52","slug":"idiom-51-go-the-whole-hog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-51-go-the-whole-hog\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiom 51 &#8211; Go the whole hog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"decoded alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/openclipart.org\/image\/300px\/svg_to_png\/7525\/johnny_automatic_hog.png\" alt=\"http:\/\/openclipart.org\/image\/300px\/svg_to_png\/7525\/johnny_automatic_hog.png\" width=\"230\" height=\"121\" \/>We have been having some problems with our system at work &#8211; our computers are not so new any more. After thinking about just upgrading the RAM on the machines, we decided to <em>go the whole hog<\/em> <em>(wenn schon, denn schon)<\/em> and buy all new computers for everyone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hog is another word for pig. The origin of the saying comes from a poem, <em>The Love of the World Reproved: or, Hypocrisy Detected<\/em>, written by William Cowper, 1782. This was a different time &#8211; when people still felt comfortable about laughing at others people&#8217;s religions. In the poem Cowper describes Muslims freely interpreting the rules about which pieces of the pig they could eat until the hole hog was gone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been having some problems with our system at work &#8211; our computers are not so new any more. After thinking about just upgrading the RAM on the machines, we decided to go the whole hog (wenn schon, denn schon) and buy all new computers for everyone. Hog is another word for pig. The [&#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\/268"}],"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=268"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}