{"id":13861,"date":"2024-03-15T14:02:34","date_gmt":"2024-03-15T14:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=13861"},"modified":"2024-03-15T14:06:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-15T14:06:05","slug":"food-and-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=13861","title":{"rendered":"Food and language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with water, food is one of the essentials of life.<\/p>\n<p>Another of life&#8217;s essentials is language; it&#8217;s vital for communication and communal living in a social species such as ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>One of the elements of language is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.collinsdictionary.com\/dictionary\/english\/adage\">adage<\/a>, generally defined as <em>something which people often say and which expresses a general truth about some aspect of life<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In English one well-known adage is <em>there&#8217;s many a true word spoken in jest<\/em>, a propos of which the screenshot below turned up today in my social media feed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/03\/british_food.png\" alt=\"Conversation reads - Is British food really that bad? If made correctly; yes.\" width=\"600\" height=\"469\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13867\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/03\/british_food.png 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2024\/03\/british_food-300x235.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Along with water, food is one of the essentials of life. Another of life&#8217;s essentials is language; it&#8217;s vital for communication and communal living in a social species such as ourselves. One of the elements of language is the adage, generally defined as something which people often say and which expresses a general truth about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,17,34],"tags":[36,16,25,22,35],"class_list":["post-13861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-oddities","category-social-media","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-food","tag-language","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13861"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13872,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13861\/revisions\/13872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}