{"id":465,"date":"2005-10-27T20:31:15","date_gmt":"2005-10-27T18:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.tjerngren.net\/wp\/?p=465"},"modified":"2005-10-28T07:54:53","modified_gmt":"2005-10-28T05:54:53","slug":"word-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/?p=465","title":{"rendered":"Word Play<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Swedish, the word for the number 6 is “sex.” The word for “sex” is also “sex.” This isn’t cause for misunderstanding as often as you might think, but it does occasionally provide for a bit of fun, such as in the following ad that ran in one of our local papers this morning:<\/p>\n

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The text on the left reads, “Buy sex and you get a 20% discount.” To the right it says, “At Mrs. Jonsson’s home — come see, shop, and enjoy … lots of exciting inspiration. We’ll serve coffee and cake.”<\/p>\n

I haven’t had a better offer all day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Swedish, the word for the number 6 is “sex.” The word for “sex” is also “sex.” This isn’t cause for misunderstanding as often as you might think, but it does occasionally provide for a bit of fun, such as in the following ad that ran in one of our local papers this morning: The… Read More Word Play<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beverlyrevelry.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}