{"id":776,"date":"2011-11-06T16:26:47","date_gmt":"2011-11-06T15:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=776"},"modified":"2011-11-10T20:31:17","modified_gmt":"2011-11-10T19:31:17","slug":"a-nit-picker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=776","title":{"rendered":"A nit-picker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Naming no names, but ‘to be a nit-picker’ is translated as ‘\u00eatre tr\u00e8s tatillon (a man) or tatillonne (a woman)’.<\/p>\n

And, in similar vein, ‘to split hairs’ is described as ‘chercher la petite b\u00eate’ :\u00a0literally: ‘to search for the little animal’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Naming no names, but ‘to be a nit-picker’ is translated as ‘\u00eatre tr\u00e8s tatillon (a man) or tatillonne (a woman)’. And, in similar vein, ‘to split hairs’ is described as ‘chercher la petite b\u00eate’ :\u00a0literally: ‘to search for the little … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-cw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=776"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":778,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776\/revisions\/778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}