{"id":4320,"date":"2011-01-19T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T20:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=4320"},"modified":"2011-11-08T22:25:54","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T06:25:54","slug":"where-the-word-loo-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/01\/where-the-word-loo-came-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Word &#8220;Loo&#8221; Came From"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/where-the-word-loo-came-fro.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4321\" title=\"where-the-word-loo-came-fro\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/where-the-word-loo-came-fro.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"558\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/where-the-word-loo-came-fro.jpg 558w, https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/where-the-word-loo-came-fro-340x232.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 558px) 100vw, 558px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>##EMBED##<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Why the Toilet is Called a John\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/08\/why-the-toilet-is-sometimes-called-a-john\/\">Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why the Toilet is Called a John<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text Version<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The British word for the toilet, \u201cloo\u201d, derives from the French \u201cguardez l\u2019eau\u201d, meaning \u201cwatch out for the water\u201d.\u00a0 This comes from the fact that, in medieval Europe, people simply threw the contents of their chamber pots out the window onto the streets.\u00a0 Before throwing the waste out the window, they\u2019d yell \u201cGuardez l\u2019eau!\u201d\u00a0 The term \u201cguardez l\u2019eau\u201d first came to English as \u201cgardy-loo\u201d and then shortened to \u201cloo\u201d, which eventually came to mean the toilet itself.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>##EMBED## Click Here for Sources and to Learn Why the Toilet is Called a John Text Version The British word for the toilet, \u201cloo\u201d, derives from the French \u201cguardez l\u2019eau\u201d, meaning \u201cwatch out for the water\u201d.\u00a0 This comes from the fact that, in medieval Europe, people simply threw the contents of their chamber pots out the window onto the streets.\u00a0 [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[1166],"class_list":["post-4320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-etymology-loo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4323,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4320\/revisions\/4323"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}