{"id":2470,"date":"2010-05-21T22:39:01","date_gmt":"2010-05-21T21:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2470"},"modified":"2010-05-21T22:39:01","modified_gmt":"2010-05-21T21:39:01","slug":"amaia-montero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/amaia-montero\/","title":{"rendered":"Amaia Montero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of Phyllis&#8217;s old uni friends lives in Spain, and when he heard we had named our daughter <i>Amaia<\/i>, he said that of course Amaia was now a common name in Spain because of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Amaia_Montero\">singer<\/a>, but he hadn&#8217;t realised she was now also famous in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, of course, that we had never heard about the singer before, but she&#8217;s readily available on YouTube and Amazon:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xfzxJt_ZLSo&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/xfzxJt_ZLSo&#038;hl=en_US&#038;fs=1&#038;color1=0x006699&#038;color2=0x54abd6\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s funny &ndash; she seems to have studied chemistry at <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/University_of_the_Basque_Country\">Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea<\/a>, which is where I learnt Basque, and she&#8217;s from the town <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Irun\">Irun<\/a>, which was also where my teacher (Nekane) lived.  It&#8217;s a small world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of Phyllis&#8217;s old uni friends lives in Spain, and when he heard we had named our daughter Amaia, he said that of course Amaia was now a common name in Spain because of the singer, but he hadn&#8217;t realised she was now also famous in the UK. The truth is, of course, that we had never heard about the singer before, but she&#8217;s readily available on YouTube and Amazon: It&#8217;s funny &ndash; she seems to have studied chemistry at Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, which is where I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,161,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-es","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470","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=2470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}