{"id":44,"date":"2006-05-28T16:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-28T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=44"},"modified":"2006-05-28T16:38:00","modified_gmt":"2006-05-28T15:38:00","slug":"i-a-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/i-a-grandmother\/","title":{"rendered":"I \u2013 a grandmother"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/154667010\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.flickr.com\/53\/154667010_f7e87b5807_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a> <br \/> <span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/viralbus\/154667010\/\">The last meal<\/a>  <br \/>  Originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/viralbus\/\">viralbus<\/a>. <\/span><\/div>\n<p>One of the really odd things about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georgian_language\">Georgian<\/a> is the words for members of the family.  It&#8217;s bad enough that &#8220;father&#8221; is <i>mama<\/i> and &#8220;mother&#8221; is <i>deda<\/i>, but to confuse matters further, most terms can be used both ways, i.e., <i>mama<\/i> can mean both &#8220;father&#8221; and &#8220;son\/daughter&#8221; (when addressed by their father).  This meant that because Caca bebo (whom I lived with in Georgia) adopted me as a grandson (she&#8217;s pictured here with her two real grandsons, my mates Lasha and Kakha), she would often call me <i>grandmother<\/i>.  She sadly passed away years ago, so I doubt I will ever be called grandmother again! \ud83d\ude41<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last meal Originally uploaded by viralbus. One of the really odd things about Georgian is the words for members of the family. It&#8217;s bad enough that &#8220;father&#8221; is mama and &#8220;mother&#8221; is deda, but to confuse matters further, most terms can be used both ways, i.e., mama can mean both &#8220;father&#8221; and &#8220;son\/daughter&#8221; (when addressed by their father). This meant that because Caca bebo (whom I lived with in Georgia) adopted me as a grandson (she&#8217;s pictured here with her two real grandsons, my mates Lasha [&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-44","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-linguistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44","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=44"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}