{"id":2572,"date":"2010-07-05T17:54:36","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T16:54:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2572"},"modified":"2010-07-05T17:54:36","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T16:54:36","slug":"very-little-frisian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/very-little-frisian\/","title":{"rendered":"Very little Frisian"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jetske\/4541044591\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2771\/4541044591_aa71bf5ea8_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jetske\/4541044591\/\">My Frisian clogs<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/jetske\/\">Jetske19<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been exploring Leeuwarden\/Ljowert (the capital of Friesland) for most of the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>I must say I&#8217;m disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from a few engraved poems, a couple of restaurant menus, and the name of the regional council, I have not found anything written in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/West_Frisian_language\">Frisian<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I thought the language was co\u00f6fficial with Dutch here, so I had expected tons of bilingual signs and informal stuff only in the language, just like you would see in Catalonia or the Basque Country.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s more Gaelic  in Glasgow than Frisian in Leeuwarden!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Frisian clogs Originally uploaded by Jetske19 I&#8217;ve been exploring Leeuwarden\/Ljowert (the capital of Friesland) for most of the afternoon. I must say I&#8217;m disappointed. Apart from a few engraved poems, a couple of restaurant menus, and the name of the regional council, I have not found anything written in Frisian. I thought the language was co\u00f6fficial with Dutch here, so I had expected tons of bilingual signs and informal stuff only in the language, just like you would see in Catalonia or the Basque Country. But [&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-2572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572","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=2572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}