{"id":109,"date":"2007-09-16T13:44:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-16T11:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zecharya.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/16\/sono-pieno-come\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T16:33:59","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T14:33:59","slug":"sono-pieno-come","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zecharya.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/16\/sono-pieno-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Sono pieno come &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian expression <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">pieno come un uovo<\/span> has never convinced me.  Surely, to describe how stuffed you are after an antipasto, pasta, smoked scamorza cheese, chicory sauteed in olive oil, garlic and red pepper, tiramisu and espresso, there must be something more appropriate than &#8220;I&#8217;m as full as an egg.&#8221;  <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">An egg?<\/span> Since when is an egg the fullest thing imaginable?<\/p>\n<p>Here is a tentative list of things fuller than an egg.<br \/><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">Sono pieno come&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-style: italic;\">Napoli<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">un&#8217;elefantessa incinta<\/span> (A pregnant elephant)<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">il pranzo di natale<\/span> (Christmas lunch)<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-style: italic;\">Calcutta<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">un politico di bugie<\/span> (a politician is of lies)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kishka_%28food%29\">Kishke<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">il GRA alle 18.00<\/span> (the ring road at 6pm)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Add your own!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian expression pieno come un uovo has never convinced me. Surely, to describe how stuffed you are after an antipasto, pasta, smoked scamorza cheese, chicory sauteed in olive oil, garlic and red pepper, tiramisu and espresso, there must be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zecharya.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/16\/sono-pieno-come\/\">Continua a leggere<span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zecharya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zecharya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zecharya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zecharya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zecharya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.zecharya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":355,"href":"https:\/\/www.zecharya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109\/revisions\/355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zecharya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zecharya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zecharya.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}