{"id":12254,"date":"2016-04-09T11:53:18","date_gmt":"2016-04-09T10:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12254"},"modified":"2016-04-09T11:53:18","modified_gmt":"2016-04-09T10:53:18","slug":"finnish-language-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12254","title":{"rendered":"Finnish Language Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently today is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.finland.is\/public\/default.aspx?contentid=162427&#038;\">Finnish Language Day<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/heathershelsinki.com\/april-9-is-mikael-agricolas-day-finnish-language-day\/\"><em>Suomen kielen p\u00e4iv\u00e4<\/em><\/a>. It is the anniversary of the death of Mikael Agricola (c. 1510-1557), a clergyman who is known as the &#8220;father of literary Finnish&#8221; &#8211; he translated religious works into Finnish, including the New Testament, and modern Finnish spelling is based on his work. Before then there was no standard form of written Finnish [<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mikael_Agricola\">source<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>It is also my birthday &#8211; Ta mee shey bleeaney as daeed d&#8217;eash jiu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently today is Finnish Language Day or Suomen kielen p\u00e4iv\u00e4. It is the anniversary of the death of Mikael Agricola (c. 1510-1557), a clergyman who is known as the &#8220;father of literary Finnish&#8221; &#8211; he translated religious works into Finnish, including the New Testament, and modern Finnish spelling is based on his work. Before then [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,109,8,10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-finnish","category-general","category-language","category-manx"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}