{"id":44,"date":"2014-02-17T17:28:30","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T17:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oldkaren.com\/?p=44"},"modified":"2014-02-17T17:30:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T17:30:18","slug":"slang","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/?p=44","title":{"rendered":"Slang"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found the book, <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Spanish Street Slang<\/span>, at Barnes and Noble.\u00a0 Thinking it might be useful in communicating with our growing Mexican population, I flipped through the pages.\u00a0 The book was organized much like a dictionary or thesaurus, showing words and phrases in alphabetical order.\u00a0 I read a bit, trying to get an idea of the content.<\/p>\n<p>Quite a surprising experience.<\/p>\n<p>On every other page, I found the word <i>penis.\u00a0 <\/i><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s right.\u00a0 <i>Penis.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I did not read the entire book, but I skimmed at least fifteen pages, covering about ten letters of the alphabet.\u00a0 And behind every single one of those letters, I found a different word for <i>penis.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, there is a different word for <i>penis<\/i> that begins with each of the twenty-nine letters of the Spanish alphabet.<\/p>\n<p>I suppose one shouldn&#8217;t be struck dumb when looking at a book designed to teach words, but I was.<\/p>\n<p>Why would anyone use that word so much?\u00a0 What purpose could they possibly have?<\/p>\n<p>My first thought when I saw the book was that it might be helpful for my friend, Amy, who is a police officer.<\/p>\n<p>After I stopped laughing, however, I returned the book to the shelf, realizing that the book would only be helpful to Amy if she were in a different profession.<\/p>\n<p>A profession on the wrong side of the law.<\/p>\n<p>A hooker, for example\u2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found the book, Spanish Street Slang, at Barnes and Noble.\u00a0 Thinking it might be useful in communicating with our growing Mexican population, I flipped through the pages.\u00a0 The book was organized much like a dictionary or thesaurus, showing words and phrases in alphabetical order.\u00a0 I read a bit, trying to get an idea of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oldkaren.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}