{"id":743,"date":"2015-04-27T15:31:17","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T13:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=743"},"modified":"2015-04-27T15:31:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T13:31:17","slug":"podcast-recommendation-9-why-is-pumpernickel-bread-named-for-a-farting-devil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/podcast-recommendation-9-why-is-pumpernickel-bread-named-for-a-farting-devil\/","title":{"rendered":"Podcast Recommendation 9 &#8211; Why Is Pumpernickel Bread Named for a Farting Devil?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/podcasts\/lexicon_valley\/2015\/04\/lexicon_valley_the_etymology_and_history_of_the_word_pumpernickel_with_lexicographer.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" alignright\" title=\"150406_LexValley_pumpernickel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/content\/dam\/slate\/articles\/podcasts\/lexicon_valley\/2015\/04\/150406_LexValley_pumpernickel.jpg.CROP.original-original.jpg\" alt=\"Pumpernickel rye bread.\" width=\"171\" height=\"122\" \/><\/a>Today&#8217;s podcast recommendation from the LINGUA FRANCA Sprachschule blog looks at something that is a staple (<em>Grundnahrungsmittel<\/em>) in many German and American homes &#8211; pumpernickel. The name sounds rather German-ish, but what does it really mean? And where does it come from? The story touches on everything from Napoleon to a farting devil.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/podcasts\/lexicon_valley\/2015\/04\/lexicon_valley_the_etymology_and_history_of_the_word_pumpernickel_with_lexicographer.html\">this episode<\/a> of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/podcasts\/lexicon_valley.html\">Lexicon Valley podcast<\/a> \u2013 &#8222;A show about the mysteries of English&#8220; \u2013 host Mike Vuolo and Bob Garfield discuss the surprisingly entertaining etymology and history of the word <em>pumpernickel<\/em> with <em>Wall Street Journal<\/em> language columnist Ben Zimmer. <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/de\/podcast\/slate-presents-lexicon-valley\/id500673866?mt=2\">iTunes<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s podcast recommendation from the LINGUA FRANCA Sprachschule blog looks at something that is a staple (Grundnahrungsmittel) in many German and American homes &#8211; pumpernickel. The name sounds rather German-ish, but what does it really mean? And where does it come from? The story touches on everything from Napoleon to a farting devil. In this [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[17,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743"}],"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=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}