{"id":1089,"date":"2006-06-21T16:46:43","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T20:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleek.lunarpages.com\/blogs\/?p=1089"},"modified":"2006-06-21T16:46:43","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T20:46:43","slug":"german-toilets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/?p=1089","title":{"rendered":"German Toilets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 88, I went to visit my father in Holland, where he was teaching English as part of a teacher's exchange program. I stayed three weeks. Great place. I'd love to go back. One of the things I remembered, in addition to the mayo on their fries, the great beer, and the lack of drinking age, was the shape of Dutch toilets. Unlike every other toilet I'd seen where there's a deep bowl filled, to some level, with clean water, Dutch toilets had a small bowl in the front, and a large, flat <i>shelf<\/i> taking up the rest of the space. I always assumed it was some half-baked water-saving idea. Turns out, the shelf has <a href=\"http:\/\/asecular.com\/~scott\/misc\/toilet.htm\">other uses<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 88, I went to visit my father in Holland, where he was teaching English as part of a teacher's exchange program. I stayed three weeks. Great place. I'd love to go back. One of the things I remembered, in addition to the mayo on their fries, the great beer, and the lack of [&hellip;]<\/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-1089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ok-cleek.com\/blogs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}