{"id":2563,"date":"2009-06-30T10:40:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-30T10:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.b.shuttle.de\/hayek\/Hayek\/Jochen\/wp\/blog-en\/2009\/06\/30\/the-english-hazard-vs-the-portuguese-azar\/"},"modified":"2009-06-30T10:40:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-30T10:40:00","slug":"the-english-hazard-vs-the-portuguese-azar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/2009\/06\/30\/the-english-hazard-vs-the-portuguese-azar\/","title":{"rendered":"the english hazard vs the portuguese azar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nboth the english word <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/hazard\">hazard<\/a><br \/>\nand the portuguese word <a href=\"http:\/\/pt.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/azar\">azar<\/a><br \/>\nsounded so similar to me, when I first heard that word used by my Love,<br \/>\nso that I considered them to mean the same.<br \/>\nthat&#8217;s incorrect, as I had to find out very soon,<br \/>\nwhen we looked up the dictionaries on Sunday evening.<br \/>\nwhat a time for looking up dictionaries?<br \/>\nbut what else would adults do beyond 23:00 on Sunday evenings?\n<\/p>\n<p>\nbut me being a little strongheaded I finally found out,<br \/>\nthat both words go back to the same root,<br \/>\nwhich is the arab word \u201caz-zahr\u201d resp. \u201cal-zahr\u201d meaning \u201cthe dice\u201d.<br \/>\nweird, isn&#8217;t it?!? same root, opposite meanings. wow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>both the english word hazard and the portuguese word azar sounded so similar to me, when I first heard that word used by my Love, so that I considered them to mean the same. that&#8217;s incorrect, as I had to find out very soon, when we looked up the dictionaries on Sunday evening. what a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[666],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paO0kP-Fl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.jochen.hayek.name\/blog-en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}