{"id":729,"date":"2003-09-10T20:48:31","date_gmt":"2003-09-11T00:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2003-09-10T20:48:31","modified_gmt":"2003-09-11T00:48:31","slug":"bag-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=729","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bag the head&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a phrase that I needed translating into English. It comes in <em>The Mask of Zorro<\/em>, a deeply crappy film that my daughter and her friend found on video in a Swedish <span class=\"caps\">B&amp;B.<\/span> They just loved it, and claimed to be learning Swedish from the subtitles. I learnt, from the subtitles, that &#8220;Bag the head&#8221; means &#8220;Put the head in a sack&#8221;. In Swedish, that&#8217;s &#8220;Stoppa huvudet i s&auml;cken&#8221;, a phrase which seemed enormously funny to the girls.<\/p>\n\n<p>So this morning, when I was rambling around Swedish newspaper sites, looking for local colour, I was delighted to find <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aftonbladet.se\/vss\/nyheter\/story\/utskrift\/0,3258,358831,00.html\">a headline in one tabloid <\/a>that says, &#8220;Hon hade sitt offers huvud i ryggs<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a phrase that I needed translating into English. It comes in The Mask of Zorro, a deeply crappy film that my daughter and her friend found on video in a Swedish <span class=\"caps\">B&amp;B.<\/span> They just loved it, and claimed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=729\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=729\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}