{"id":968,"date":"2006-02-22T21:50:44","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T01:50:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=968"},"modified":"2006-03-04T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2006-03-04T20:44:08","slug":"milkman-or-milkwoman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"milkman (or milkwoman)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u>milkman, milkwoman<\/u><\/strong><br \/><em>n<\/em> <strong>1.<\/strong> A person who is frequently wandering around the office (&#8216;door by door&#8217;\/&#8217;cubicle by cubicle&#8217;) and fills in time by making conversation with anybody who is willing to listen and discuss today&#8217;s headlines. <br \/>\nex &#8211; <em>Duncan is proving to be quite a milkman today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Origin<\/em>:Dutch: Back in the 70s a &#8216;mobile store&#8217; was generally operated by the local dairy store (or producers), delivering fresh produce and dairy products right in front of the door. These drivers (&#8216;milkmen&#8217;, Dutch: &#8216;melkboer&#8217;) and their stores became popular meeting points for people discussing the latest rumours in the neighbourhood.\n<\/p>\n<p><small>1. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=471\">Earlier at xsamplex<\/a><br \/>\n<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>milkman, milkwomann 1. A person who is frequently wandering around the office (&#8216;door by door&#8217;\/&#8217;cubicle by cubicle&#8217;) and fills in time by making conversation with anybody who is willing to listen and discuss today&#8217;s headlines. ex &#8211; Duncan is proving &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=968\">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\/968"}],"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=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}