{"id":6642,"date":"2002-06-21T00:32:17","date_gmt":"2002-06-21T04:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2002\/06\/21\/\/"},"modified":"2002-06-21T00:32:17","modified_gmt":"2002-06-21T04:32:17","slug":"6642","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2002\/06\/6642\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/questionmark.jpg\" alt=\"questions\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>What exactly is a &#8221;damp squib&#8221;?  Why are police and court cell areas called bridewells?  The police are nick-named &#8220;Old Bill&#8221;&#8230; Why?  What is the origin of the phrase &#8220;Hobsons choice&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Okay all you geeky bloggers, heres your chance to share your infinite wisdom \ud83d\ude09  Check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/notesandqueries\/category\/0,5753,-13,00.html\" rel=\"external\">Guardian<\/a> site for more questions and answers&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What exactly is a &#8221;damp squib&#8221;? Why are police and court cell areas called bridewells? The police are nick-named &#8220;Old Bill&#8221;&#8230; Why? What is the origin of the phrase &#8220;Hobsons choice&#8221;? Okay all you geeky bloggers, heres your chance to share your infinite wisdom \ud83d\ude09 Check out the Guardian site for more questions and answers&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}