{"id":14120,"date":"2017-06-15T19:43:49","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T18:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=14120"},"modified":"2017-06-15T19:43:49","modified_gmt":"2017-06-15T18:43:49","slug":"magic-cafe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=14120","title":{"rendered":"Magic Caf\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/photos\/circesdiner.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" alt=\"Circe's Diner\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tonight I will mainly be listening to the band <a href=\"http:\/\/circesdiner.com\/\">Circe&#8217;s Diner<\/a> at Blue Sky Caf\u00e9. I haven&#8217;t heard them before, but their reviews are good. Also playing tonight is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ewan-macintyre.org\/\">Ewan Macintyre band<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>When I saw the name, I naturally wondered how to pronounce circe, and where the word came from.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Circe\">Wikipedia<\/a>, <strong>circe<\/strong> is pronounced (\/\u02c8s\u025c\u02d0rsi\u02d0\/ (sursee), and comes from the Greek <em>\u039a\u03af\u03c1\u03ba\u03b7<\/em> (K\u00edrk\u0113) [k\u00edrk\u025b\u035c\u025b]).<\/p>\n<p>In Greek mythology Circe is a goddess of magic, or a nymph, witch, enchantress or sorceress, daughter of the sun god Helios, and Perse, an Oceanid nymph.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/photos\/ewanmacintyreband.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"379\" alt=\"The Ewan Macintyre Band\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I will mainly be listening to the band Circe&#8217;s Diner at Blue Sky Caf\u00e9. I haven&#8217;t heard them before, but their reviews are good. Also playing tonight is the Ewan Macintyre band. When I saw the name, I naturally wondered how to pronounce circe, and where the word came from. According to Wikipedia, circe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14120","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=14120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14120\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}