{"id":975,"date":"2012-01-09T17:47:53","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T16:47:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=975"},"modified":"2012-01-09T17:47:53","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T16:47:53","slug":"better-the-devil-you-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/?p=975","title":{"rendered":"Better the devil you know…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another translated French phrase:<\/p>\n

On sait ce que l’on quitte, on ne sait pas ce que l’on prend :<\/span>
\nLiterally: One knows what one leaves, not what one gets:
\nBetter the devil you know [than the devil you don’t know]<\/p>\n

Shakespeare, Hamlet:
\n…the dread of something after death
\n…makes us rather bear those ills we have…
\nThan fly to others that we know not of?<\/p>\n

Taken from : ‘Don’t toss Granny in the begonias\/Faut pas pousser m\u00e9m\u00e9 dans les b\u00e9gonias’ par Marie-H\u00e9l\u00e8ne Claudel-Gilly et Primrose Arnander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Another translated French phrase: On sait ce que l’on quitte, on ne sait pas ce que l’on prend : Literally: One knows what one leaves, not what one gets: Better the devil you know [than the devil you don’t know] … 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":[4,26],"tags":[80,79,84,83],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4yjly-fJ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=975"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":977,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/975\/revisions\/977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmalet.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}