{"id":1305,"date":"2006-10-21T10:15:49","date_gmt":"2006-10-21T13:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2006-10-21T10:20:23","modified_gmt":"2006-10-21T13:20:23","slug":"wandle-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1305","title":{"rendered":"Wandle Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>Wandle Band<\/u><\/strong><br \/><em>col.<\/em> <strong>1.<\/strong> A group of loitering people. <em>or<\/em> an organization or part of an organization that has no or lost focus and therefore is (and will be) rudderless.<br \/>\nex &#8211; <em>&#8220;After Pam left, the electrical dept. was nothing but a wandle band&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Origin<\/em>: Comes from &#8216;wandelband&#8217;, a Dutch word that closely resembles (when translated literally) the English word of &#8216;treadmill&#8217;. Also compare with the other (Dutch) meaning of &#8216;wandelband&#8217;, the process of walking home after having a flat tire (either bycycle or car). Or, I think I made that up too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wandle Bandcol. 1. A group of loitering people. or an organization or part of an organization that has no or lost focus and therefore is (and will be) rudderless. ex &#8211; &#8220;After Pam left, the electrical dept. was nothing but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1305\">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":[34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305"}],"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=1305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}