{"id":147,"date":"2006-09-18T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T22:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=147"},"modified":"2006-09-18T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T22:12:00","slug":"the-languages-i-once-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/the-languages-i-once-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"The languages I once knew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.twid.bibulus.org\/uploaded_images\/sjtji3-732606.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twid.bibulus.org\/uploaded_images\/sjtji3-715716.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>I was looking for a recipe for ajapsandali in my recipe collection, and I stumbled upon a recipe for shchi that I had written down while I studied Russian in St. Petersburg in the summer of 1994.  Of course I didn&#8217;t compose it myself, but as far as remember, Tania was dictating it to me in her kitchen.<\/p>\n<p>I always feel it&#8217;s fascinating to find texts I wrote in languages that I have since then not used much.  I can see it&#8217;s my handwriting, but it&#8217;s flowing more easily than it would today, and the text is full of words I don&#8217;t know any more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was looking for a recipe for ajapsandali in my recipe collection, and I stumbled upon a recipe for shchi that I had written down while I studied Russian in St. Petersburg in the summer of 1994. Of course I didn&#8217;t compose it myself, but as far as remember, Tania was dictating it to me in her kitchen. I always feel it&#8217;s fascinating to find texts I wrote in languages that I have since then not used much. I can see it&#8217;s my handwriting, but it&#8217;s flowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,117],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}