{"id":823,"date":"2015-07-03T11:29:43","date_gmt":"2015-07-03T09:29:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/?p=823"},"modified":"2015-07-03T11:29:43","modified_gmt":"2015-07-03T09:29:43","slug":"idiom-110-the-ether","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/idiom-110-the-ether\/","title":{"rendered":"Idiom 110 &#8211; The ether"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yesterday I was working on an important report that I have to give to my boss today. I&#8217;m sure I left it on my desk yesterday when I left the office. But when I came in today, it wasn&#8217;t there. I&#8217;ve looked everywhere, I just can&#8217;t find it &#8211; it&#8217;s disappeared into<em> the ether (das Nichts).<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/images.inmagine.com\/400nwm\/aspireimages\/X026\/bxp28298.jpg\" alt=\"http:\/\/images.inmagine.com\/400nwm\/aspireimages\/X026\/bxp28298.jpg\" width=\"84\" height=\"124\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the modern scientific world, ether is a chemical\u00a0 which is <span class=\"oneClick-link oneClick-available\">used<\/span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">as<\/span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">a<\/span> <span class=\"oneClick-link oneClick-available\">solvent<\/span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">and,<\/span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">formerly,<\/span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">as<\/span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">an<\/span> <span class=\"oneClick-link\">anesthetic.<\/span> But idioms referring to <em>the ether<\/em> generally come from an older meaning. Ether was a substance once believed to fill all space beyond the\u00a0 the moon, holding in it the stars and planets and providing a medium for light to travel through. It was invisible and mysterious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I was working on an important report that I have to give to my boss today. I&#8217;m sure I left it on my desk yesterday when I left the office. But when I came in today, it wasn&#8217;t there. I&#8217;ve looked everywhere, I just can&#8217;t find it &#8211; it&#8217;s disappeared into the ether (das [&#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":[10],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823"}],"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=823"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":825,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823\/revisions\/825"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.lingua-franca.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}