{"id":294,"date":"2007-06-06T12:58:13","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T20:58:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=294"},"modified":"2007-06-06T13:10:55","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T21:10:55","slug":"my-new-bumper-sticker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"My new bumper sticker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking home the other day when a car passed me with a bumper sticker like this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/68368322@N00\/531864218\/\" title=\"\u05d0\u05e0\u05d9 \u05d3\u05d5\u05d1\u05e8 \u05d0\u05e8\u05de\u05d9\u05ea &mdash; I Speak Aramaic\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1206\/531864218_19e6ded30c_m.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"84\" alt=\"\u05d0\u05e0\u05d9 \u05d3\u05d5\u05d1\u05e8 \u05d0\u05e8\u05de\u05d9\u05ea &mdash; I Speak Aramaic\"><\/a>. He pulled in and parked ahead of me so I waited for him to get out and said politely \u05e6\u05b7\u05e4\u05b0\u05e8\u05b8\u05d0 \u05d8\u05b8\u05d1\u05b8\u05d0, and told him that I liked the sticker, and where could I get one? He immediately pulled two more out of the car and presented them to me.<\/p>\n<p>We spoke for a few minutes, and it turns out that he is a native Aramaic speaker, and that the stickers are put out by an organization that has just opened an office in the centre of Jerusalem (in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eliezer_Ben_Yehuda\">Ben Yehuda<\/a> Street, appropriately enough), and they are planning to start holding classes in spoken Aramaic.<\/p>\n<p>My only question is, why doesn&#8217;t it say \u05d0\u05e0\u05d0 \u05de\u05dc\u05d9\u05dc \u05d0\u05e8\u05de\u05d9\u05d0?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was walking home the other day when a car passed me with a bumper sticker like this: . He pulled in and parked ahead of me so I waited for him to get out and said politely \u05e6\u05b7\u05e4\u05b0\u05e8\u05b8\u05d0 \u05d8\u05b8\u05d1\u05b8\u05d0, and told him that I liked the sticker, and where could I get one? He [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smontagu.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}