{"id":165,"date":"2006-05-08T16:11:59","date_gmt":"2006-05-08T10:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/2006\/05\/08\/the-joy-of-literal-translations\/"},"modified":"2006-05-08T16:11:59","modified_gmt":"2006-05-08T10:41:59","slug":"the-joy-of-literal-translations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2006\/05\/08\/the-joy-of-literal-translations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Joy of Literal Translations"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Please<\/a>
\nGod’s Final Message to All His Creation has absolutely nothing on this most excellent of apology signs.<\/p>\n

\"Careful<\/a><\/p>\n

Now, isn’t that so much cooler than just saying “Careful: Wet Floor”?<\/p>\n

\"Civilized<\/a><\/p>\n

If only Indian Railways had Civilized Service Model Channels. Or any Civilized Service.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

Perhaps it’s an aphrodisiac.<\/p>\n

\"Buy<\/a><\/p>\n

If I have to Buy Down Wear, shouldn’t I Down The Stairs?<\/p>\n

\"Information<\/a><\/p>\n

Don’t even ask.<\/p>\n

\"Drinking<\/a><\/p>\n

Why doesn’t he join Alcoholics Anonymous then?<\/p>\n

\"Fashional<\/a><\/p>\n

A place full of Orientalism as well as Occidentalism; a spiritual paradise for enjoying yourself. Unless you’re Edward Said, of course. And he’s dead, so it’s all good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

God’s Final Message to All His Creation has absolutely nothing on this most excellent of apology signs. Now, isn’t that so much cooler than just saying “Careful: Wet Floor”? If only Indian Railways had Civilized Service Model Channels. Or any Civilized Service. Perhaps it’s an aphrodisiac. If I have to Buy Down Wear, shouldn’t I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-2F","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}