{"id":6533,"date":"2012-09-21T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T07:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2012\/09\/21\/in-vollen-zgen-genieen\/"},"modified":"2012-09-21T07:00:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T07:00:01","slug":"in-vollen-zgen-genieen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20120921-01\/?p=6533","title":{"rendered":"In vollen Zügen genießen"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my friends bought me a souvenir one one of his trips to Germany. It is a beer mug from Bayerischer Bahnhof<\/a>, a restaurant and brewery at the Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof<\/a>. The mug carries the brewery’s slogan In vollen Zügen genießen<\/i>, which is a German idiom meaning “to enjoy to the fullest.” Literally, “Das Leben in vollen Zügen genießen<\/span>” means “to enjoy life in full gulps”, the idea being that instead of sipping your way through life, you’re taking huge gulps of it.\n The slogan is a pun, though, for the Bayerischer Bahnhof, because the word Zug<\/i> also means train. They come from the root ziehen<\/i> which means “to pull”. (Compare the English word draught<\/i>, which has a similar duality.)\n Therefore, the saying “Das Leben in vollen Zügen genießen<\/span>” could also be interpreted as saying “Enjoy life in crowded trains.”<\/p>\n

Which is why it’s the slogan of a brewery in a train station. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my friends bought me a souvenir one one of his trips to Germany. It is a beer mug from Bayerischer Bahnhof, a restaurant and brewery at the Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof. The mug carries the brewery’s slogan In vollen Zügen genießen, which is a German idiom meaning “to enjoy to the fullest.” Literally, “Das […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-6533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

One of my friends bought me a souvenir one one of his trips to Germany. It is a beer mug from Bayerischer Bahnhof, a restaurant and brewery at the Leipzig Bayerischer Bahnhof. The mug carries the brewery’s slogan In vollen Zügen genießen, which is a German idiom meaning “to enjoy to the fullest.” Literally, “Das […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}