{"id":3814,"date":"2012-11-22T20:45:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T19:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2012-11-23T08:09:23","modified_gmt":"2012-11-23T07:09:23","slug":"dumb-as-doughnuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/dumb-as-doughnuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Dumb as Doughnuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While in British Englisch burnt clay is considered as identifier for grades of stupidity (<em>to be as thick as a brick<\/em>), American English chooses a more calorie laden option and defines a person with supposedly very low IQ as &#8222;<em>as dumb as doughnuts<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>It being the staple food of US law enforcement officers is pure coincidence and does not mean to ridicule their mental abilities.<\/p>\n<p>z.B.:<\/p>\n<p>This chick sure is hot, but frankly, <em>she&#8217;s as dumb as doughnuts<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in British Englisch burnt clay is considered as identifier for grades of stupidity (to be as thick as a brick), American English chooses a more calorie laden option and defines a person with supposedly very low IQ as &#8222;as dumb as doughnuts&#8220; It being the staple food of US law enforcement officers is pure [&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-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","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=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3817,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions\/3817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english-munich.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}