{"id":379,"date":"2007-05-10T20:35:21","date_gmt":"2007-05-10T19:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/10\/stop-the-world\/"},"modified":"2007-05-10T20:35:21","modified_gmt":"2007-05-10T19:35:21","slug":"stop-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"Stop the world, I want to get off!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week I started putting together a page of translations of the phrase &#8220;Stop the world, I want to get off&#8221;. I was looking through my page of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/phrases\/useful.htm\">&#8216;useful&#8217; phrases<\/a> and noticed that I have a Spanish version of this phrase. I wondered if I could find translations into other language, and so far have found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/language\/phrases\/stoptheworld.php\">a few<\/a>.  Could you supply versions of this phrase in any other languages?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve also added a new section to my site &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/songs\/\">Can o&#8217; Songs<\/a> &#8211; a collection of songs that I&#8217;ve learnt in Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Welsh, with English translations, background info (where available), links to other versions of the songs and lists of albums which include the songs. I plan to add recordings of me singing the songs and\/or playing them on the tin whistle, and I&#8217;ll be adding quite a few other songs to this section when I have a spare moment or two. If any of you feel inspired to send in recordings you&#8217;ve made of any of the songs already there, or would like to suggest any other songs I could have a go at, please let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I started putting together a page of translations of the phrase &#8220;Stop the world, I want to get off&#8221;. I was looking through my page of &#8216;useful&#8217; phrases and noticed that I have a Spanish version of this phrase. I wondered if I could find translations into other language, and so far have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,29,72,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-music","category-translation","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379","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=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}