{"id":5,"date":"2005-04-07T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2005-04-07T02:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-04-07\/5"},"modified":"2015-04-02T18:59:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-02T09:59:24","slug":"5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/2005-04-07\/5","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Not as Painful as it Looks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='ic'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/i\/ouchi.jpg\" width=\"333\" height=\"250\"\nclass=\"ic\"\nid=\"iouchi\"\/><\/div>\n\n<p>While waiting the other day at an intersection <span class='nobr'>I traverse<\/span> often (under a\n<a\nhref=\"http:\/\/map.yahoo.co.jp\/pl?nl=34.53.38.569&amp;el=135.45.3.639&amp;la=1&amp;sc=3&amp;CE.x=245&amp;CE.y=253\">huge\nmaze of overpasses<\/a>), it suddenly struck me that the name of the\nintersection might look funny to an English- (but not Japanese-) speaker:\n<strong>Ouchi<\/strong>. It's pronounced &#8220;oh-ooh-chi&#8221;, and\nsounds like the fictitious Irish name <strong>O'Coochie<\/strong> without\nthe '<strong>k<\/strong>' sound.<\/p>\n\n<p>It's just a name, but for what it's worth, the component\ncharacters mean &#8220;big&#8221; and &#8220;inner&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While waiting the other day at an intersection I traverse often (under a huge maze of overpasses), it suddenly struck me that the name of the intersection might look funny to an English- (but not Japanese-) speaker: Ouchi. It's pronounced \"oh-ooh-chi\", and sounds like the fictitious Irish name O'Coochie without the 'k' sound.<\/p> <p>It's just a name, but for what it's worth, the component characters mean \"big\" and \"inner\".<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/regex.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}