{"id":1032,"date":"2006-04-01T19:34:48","date_gmt":"2006-04-01T23:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1032"},"modified":"2006-04-01T19:35:33","modified_gmt":"2006-04-01T23:35:33","slug":"flater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1032","title":{"rendered":"Flater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">E<\/span>arlier this day, a close Dutch relative (understatement) brought up the Dutch word &#8216;flater&#8217;, which had me confused for a couple of seconds: the actual meaning of the word (&#8220;a fiasco of gigantic proportions&#8221;, I guess you could call that an &#8216;overstatement&#8217;) didn&#8217;t drill down to me until I managed to get rid of the &#8216;inflated ball&#8217; association my &#8216;English dictionary&#8217; tried to push upon me.\n<\/p>\n<p>I feel sorry for my relatives who may have a hard time understanding my often unintelligible pronouncement of words I used to master 6 years ago. On the other hand, why would I care if over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nfia.com\/solutions.php?pageid=9\">70 percent of Dutch people<\/a> is able to speak English?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this day, a close Dutch relative (understatement) brought up the Dutch word &#8216;flater&#8217;, which had me confused for a couple of seconds: the actual meaning of the word (&#8220;a fiasco of gigantic proportions&#8221;, I guess you could call that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1032\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}