{"id":114,"date":"2007-08-01T05:37:40","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T12:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=114"},"modified":"2007-08-01T05:38:08","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T12:38:08","slug":"amusing-ideogram-t-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=114","title":{"rendered":"Amusing Ideogram T-shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/ethylene.thumbnail.jpg' align='left' style='margin-right:10px;' alt='Ideogram T-shirt' \/>Graphic designer Brian Wu has created this striking shirt which sports the Chinese chemistry &#8220;slang&#8221; for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diethylene_glycol\">diethylene glycol<\/a>.  (Somehow &#8220;chemistry&#8221; and &#8220;slang&#8221; don&#8217;t automatically link themselves in my mind.  But anyway.)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s attractive and it plays into the whole &#8220;does your tattoo artist know the difference between the characters for &#8216;courage&#8217; and &#8216;eggplant'&#8221; thing.  (The link has a bonus blog about mistranslated Chinese characters.)<P><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ironiccharacters.com\/\">Link<\/a> <I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/\">BoingBoing<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphic designer Brian Wu has created this striking shirt which sports the Chinese chemistry &#8220;slang&#8221; for diethylene glycol. (Somehow &#8220;chemistry&#8221; and &#8220;slang&#8221; don&#8217;t automatically link themselves in my mind. But anyway.) It&#8217;s attractive and it plays into the whole &#8220;does your tattoo artist know the difference between the characters for &#8216;courage&#8217; and &#8216;eggplant&#8217;&#8221; thing. (The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-peculiar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}