{"id":302,"date":"2020-12-07T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/?p=302"},"modified":"2020-12-06T11:36:25","modified_gmt":"2020-12-06T11:36:25","slug":"le-vasistas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/12\/07\/le-vasistas\/","title":{"rendered":"Le vasistas"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Le mot du jour : &#8220;Le vasistas&#8221;<br>Today, I am going to show you how, in France, we can be very good at misusing other people&#8217;s languages.<br>Here is the story :<br>In Germany in the 18th century, houses used to have a small window above the door, and when you knocked, they would ask you through that window &#8220;Was ist das ?&#8221;, meaning &#8220;What is it?&#8221;<br>French people going to Germany gave the name &#8220;vasistas&#8221; to that little window and it stayed that way.<br>We still use it today to describe a little window, most of the time without realising its German origin and meaning \ud83d\ude0a<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/tse4.mm.bing.net\/th?id=OIP.1V8kRqvm8rVeiutin5tN6wHaK-&amp;pid=Api\" alt=\"Vasistas \u2014 Wikip\u00e9dia\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le mot du jour : &#8220;Le vasistas&#8221;Today, I am going to show you how, in France, we can be very good at misusing other people&#8217;s languages.Here is the story :In Germany in the 18th century, houses used to have a small window above the door, and when you knocked, they would ask you through that &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/2020\/12\/07\/le-vasistas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Le vasistas&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classe","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":303,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lemotjuste.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}