{"id":10536,"date":"2026-10-03T22:59:19","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/?p=10536"},"modified":"2026-10-03T22:59:28","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T22:59:28","slug":"most-people-still-dont-know-what-wc-actually-stands-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/?p=10536","title":{"rendered":"Most people still don\u2019t know what \u201cWC\u201d actually stands for."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two letters WC, often seen on restroom doors in hotels, airports, and public places, stand for \u201cwater closet,\u201d an old English term for a room containing a toilet. The history of the modern flush toilet goes back to 1596, when Sir John Harington described an early flushable toilet, while in 1775 Alexander Cumming patented an improved design featuring a water trap that helped block sewer gases. As indoor toilets became more common in the 19th century, \u201cwater closet\u201d became a familiar term, and WC eventually became a short, internationally recognized label, especially in Europe. In the United States, \u201cbathroom\u201d and \u201crestroom\u201d became more common, which is why many Americans mainly encounter WC when traveling abroad\u2026\u2026..READ MORE BELOW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The two letters WC, often seen on restroom doors in hotels, airports, and public places, stand for \u201cwater closet,\u201d an old English term for a room containing&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10537,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536\/revisions\/10537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbdc.it.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}