{"id":13,"date":"2005-05-03T17:26:29","date_gmt":"2005-05-04T00:26:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/2005\/05\/03\/a-chinese-idiom\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T10:19:40","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T17:19:40","slug":"a-chinese-idiom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/a-chinese-idiom\/","title":{"rendered":"A  Chinese idiom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <i> Paul Frank&#8217;s Language Jottings<\/i>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThe <strong>cicada<\/strong> knows nothing of snow. Said of someone who&#8217;s ignorant or inexperienced. There&#8217;s also the word huigu, platypleura kaempferi, a kind of bright-colored <strong>cicada<\/strong>, and the saying huigu bu zhi chun qiu, the <strong>cicada<\/strong> is ignorant of spring or autumn, i.e., limited in experience or vision.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Paul Frank&#8217;s Language Jottings: The cicada knows nothing of snow. Said of someone who&#8217;s ignorant or inexperienced. There&#8217;s also the word huigu, platypleura kaempferi, a kind of bright-colored cicada, and the saying huigu bu zhi chun qiu, the cicada is ignorant of spring or autumn, i.e., limited in experience or vision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[677],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cicadamania.com\/cicadas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}