{"id":92,"date":"2002-08-30T12:24:36","date_gmt":"2002-08-30T16:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=92"},"modified":"2002-08-30T12:24:36","modified_gmt":"2002-08-30T16:24:36","slug":"zyklon-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=92","title":{"rendered":"Zyklon C-"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It might be wise for companies to consult a historian before naming new products. (Not to mention a linguist: remember how big the Chevy &#8220;Nova&#8221; went over in Mexico?) Calling a sneaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytelegraph.co.uk\/news\/main.jhtml;$sessionid$T2VNQLSP5AQFPQFIQMGSFF4AVCBQWIV0?xml=\/news\/2002\/08\/29\/numbro29.xml&#038;sSheet=\/news\/2002\/08\/29\/ixhome.html&#038;_requestid=54087\">Zyklon<\/a> really isn&#8217;t too bright. Nonetheless the Jewish organizations, predictably aghast, could put a sock in it once in a while. Or maybe they really believe that Umbro intended to cash in on gas-chamber chic.<\/p>\n<p><b>Update:<\/b> I am informed in the comments that I have fallen victim to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/business\/misxlate\/nova.htm\">an urban legend<\/a> about the Chevy Nova. My thanks to my alert readers. It won&#8217;t happen again. Until it does.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It might be wise for companies to consult a historian before naming new products. (Not to mention a linguist: remember how big the Chevy &#8220;Nova&#8221; went over in Mexico?) Calling a sneaker Zyklon really isn&#8217;t too bright. Nonetheless the Jewish organizations, predictably aghast, could put a sock in it once in a while. Or maybe <a href='https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/?p=92' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-1-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godofthemachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}