{"id":3115,"date":"2010-03-02T16:01:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T14:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/?p=3115"},"modified":"2010-03-31T00:28:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T21:28:34","slug":"the-language-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/the-language-dilemma\/","title":{"rendered":"The language dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/beirutspring.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/01\/hi-kifak-ca-va-pride\/\" target=\"_blank\">latest post<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/beirutspring.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\">BeirutSpring<\/a> blog reminded me of a [very sweet] message I received by email from a reader.<\/p>\n<p>It read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;Dear Maya,<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><em>I drew something about *your blog*, I hope you like it even though\u00a0it&#8217;s a criticism \ud83d\ude00\u00a0I spent a lot of time on it&#8230; It&#8217;s not good enough, but I tossed the coin \ud83d\ude09\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000; font-style: normal;\"><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Maya, please read this: <\/span><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alarabiya.net\/articles\/2010\/02\/28\/101744.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">http:\/\/www.alarabiya.net\/articles\/2010\/02\/28\/101744.html<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span style=\"color: #333333;\">&#8220;<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">And had the below illustration attached:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3116\" title=\"languages\" src=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/languages.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"549\" height=\"2500\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To answer you, Rocky \u00a0[and to all of you asking the same question] \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3120\" title=\"Picture 3\" src=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-3.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"495\" height=\"530\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-3.png 495w, https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Picture-3-280x300.png 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Thanks again to all who participated yesterday to the celebrations! \ud83d\ude42 Tomorrow I&#8217;ll be &#8220;officially&#8221; announcing the winners!<\/p>\n<p>Until then, here&#8217;s Kevin Shield&#8217;s Ikebana from the soundtrack of Lost in Translation \ud83d\ude1b . Have a beautiful day \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/amalgam\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/10-Ikebana-Kevin-Shields.mp3\">10 Ikebana &#8211; Kevin Shields<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The latest post on BeirutSpring blog reminded me of a [very sweet] message I received by email from a reader. It read: &#8220;Dear Maya, I drew something about *your blog*, I hope you like it even though\u00a0it&#8217;s a criticism \ud83d\ude00\u00a0I spent a lot of time on it&#8230; It&#8217;s not good enough, but I tossed the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"mc4wp_mailchimp_campaign":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1365,1443,1441,1442],"class_list":["post-3115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-stories","tag-arabic","tag-english","tag-languages","tag-lost-in-translation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3381,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3115\/revisions\/3381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mayazankoul.com\/amalgam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}