{"id":4651,"date":"2011-02-11T16:00:53","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T00:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4651"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:47:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:47:32","slug":"why-the-toilet-is-also-known-as-the-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/02\/why-the-toilet-is-also-known-as-the-head\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the Toilet is Also Known as the &#8220;Head&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/why-the-toilet-is-called-he.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4652\" title=\"why the toilet is called a head\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/why-the-toilet-is-called-he.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/why-the-toilet-is-called-he.jpg 558w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/why-the-toilet-is-called-he-340x260.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why the Toilet is Sometimes Called a John\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/why-the-toilet-is-sometimes-called-a-john\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why the Toilet is Sometimes Called a John<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Head&#8221;, describing a toilet, was originally a maritime euphemism.\u00a0 This came from the fact that, classically, the toilet on a marine vessel was located at the front of the ship (the head).\u00a0 This was so that water from the sea that splashed up on the front of the boat would wash the waste away.\u00a0 This term is thought to have been used as early as the 17th century.\u00a0 The first known documented occurrence of the term, however, was from 1708 by Woodes Rogers, Governor of the Bahamas; he used the word to refer to a ship\u2019s toilet in the book \u201cCruising Voyage Around the World.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why the Toilet is Sometimes Called a John Text Version &#8220;Head&#8221;, describing a toilet, was originally a maritime euphemism.\u00a0 This came from the fact that, classically, the toilet on a marine vessel was located at the front of the ship (the head).\u00a0 This was so that water from the sea that splashed [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1254,1037],"class_list":["post-4651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-head","tag-etymology-toilet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4651"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4654,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4651\/revisions\/4654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}