{"id":3851,"date":"2007-06-26T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3851"},"modified":"2017-11-27T10:42:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T16:42:22","slug":"would-you-as-a-friend-tell-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/would-you-as-a-friend-tell-me\/","title":{"rendered":"Would You, As A Friend, Tell Me?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Am I <b>bruchleidend?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/bruchleidend.jpg\" alt=\"Bruchleidend?\" width=\"600\"><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I saw this ad inside the back cover of the <i>Milwaukee America Kalendar 1924<\/i> I bought <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/25\/good-book-hunting-june-23-2007\/\" target=\"_new\">this weekend<\/a>, and it asked a question we all must ask ourselves daily: <b>Bruchleidend?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Because if I am, I definitely need to send off to a far away city to get a set of four suction cups I can wear around my waist to help with my <i>bruchleidend<\/i> condition.<\/p>\n<p>Heather informs me that I cannot suffer <i>bruchleidend<\/i>, as those are obviously a woman&#8217;s hips in it.  Google&#8217;s translator tells me that <i>bruchleidend<\/i> means &#8220;break-suffering,&#8221; which I sometimes have been known to feel (if <i>bruchleidend<\/i> means &#8220;Dreading the last minutes before you have to punch back in after scarfing a submarine sandwich and a quart of orange juice in 7 minutes&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>Given the language barrier in addition to the archaic nature of the advertisement, I cannot be clear whether this was an actual, outdated, treatment for something, snake oil of some sort, or some mechanism to part German immigrants from their American dollars.  As a matter of fact, given that it appeared in the back of a magazine and has a tarty line drawing, perhaps I&#8217;ve blown my PG-13 rating on my blog by including it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I bruchleidend? I saw this ad inside the back cover of the Milwaukee America Kalendar 1924 I bought this weekend, and it asked a question we all must ask ourselves daily: Bruchleidend? Because if I am, I definitely need to send off to a far away city to get a set of four suction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17999,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3851\/revisions\/17999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}