{"id":3738,"date":"2012-11-11T11:33:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-11T10:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/?p=3738"},"modified":"2012-11-11T11:33:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-11T10:33:59","slug":"alien-not-only-extraterrestrial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/alien-not-only-extraterrestrial\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien &#8211; not only extraterrestrial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The English word<em> alien<\/em>&#8217;s claim to fame mostly dates back\u00a0 to a Sci-fi movie of the eighties, with an lizard like extraterrestrial coming to life in some kind of splatter Cesarean section which still today instills quite shock, even on the battlehardened horror fiend.<\/p>\n<p>For <em>English as a second language<\/em> learners it is interesting to know that <em>alien<\/em> in its actual meaning means more something like <em>forein<\/em>, respectively <em>foreigner<\/em>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sting: I&#8217;m an alien I&#8217;m a legal alien<br \/>\nI&#8217;m an Englishman in New York<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English word alien&#8217;s claim to fame mostly dates back\u00a0 to a Sci-fi movie of the eighties, with an lizard like extraterrestrial coming to life in some kind of splatter Cesarean section which still today instills quite shock, even on the battlehardened horror fiend. For English as a second language learners it is interesting to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3740,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3738\/revisions\/3740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}