{"id":2078,"date":"2009-12-31T11:07:03","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T11:07:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2009-12-31T11:07:03","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T11:07:03","slug":"mysterious-inscription-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=2078","title":{"rendered":"Mysterious inscription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This mysterious inscription was sent in by an editor at the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix, Arizona. One of their reporters is working on a story about a book that was donated to a local library there. It\u2019s a portfolio of prints apparently related to the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad that was compiled for the 1939 World\u2019s Fair. <\/p>\n<p>The inscription below is on the flyleaf, and they\u2019ve been trying to determine what language it\u2019s in in the hopes of getting it translated. <\/p>\n<p align=\"right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/arizona_inscription.jpg\" width=\"439\" height=\"308\" alt=\"Mysterious inscription\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The writing appears to be in a cursive form of the Hebrew script, and the language might be Hebrew or Yiddish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This mysterious inscription was sent in by an editor at the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix, Arizona. One of their reporters is working on a story about a book that was donated to a local library there. It\u2019s a portfolio of prints apparently related to the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad that was compiled for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-puzzles","category-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078","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=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}