{"id":625,"date":"2007-01-06T16:12:59","date_gmt":"2007-01-06T08:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/kanji-puns\/"},"modified":"2007-01-06T16:12:59","modified_gmt":"2007-01-06T08:12:59","slug":"kanji-puns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2007\/kanji-puns\/","title":{"rendered":"kanji puns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Chinese characters getting used to demonstrate that <a href=\"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/newinstall\/2006\/misunderstandings-of-biblical-proportions\/\">&#8220;ancient Chinese&#8221; is the &#8220;language of God,&#8221;<\/a> it&#8217;s only fair that <a href=\"http:\/\/no-sword.jp\/blog\/2007\/01\/back-to-basics-kanji-humour.html\">the Japanese get some special etymologies out of kanji as well<\/a>. (At <a href=\"http:\/\/no-sword.jp\/blog\/\">No-sword<\/a>, of course.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Chinese characters getting used to demonstrate that &#8220;ancient Chinese&#8221; is the &#8220;language of God,&#8221; it&#8217;s only fair that the Japanese get some special etymologies out of kanji as well. (At No-sword, of course.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,29,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-characters","category-japanese","category-kanji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}