{"id":425,"date":"2007-06-26T18:00:36","date_gmt":"2007-06-26T17:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/06\/26\/chinese-names-2\/"},"modified":"2007-06-26T18:00:36","modified_gmt":"2007-06-26T17:00:36","slug":"chinese-names-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=425","title":{"rendered":"Chinese names"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese versions of candidates&#8217; names\u00a0in some Massachusetts ballots apparently have some unfortunately comical or negative\u00a0meanings, according to an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmax.com\/archives\/ic\/2007\/6\/26\/85527.shtml?s=po\">article<\/a> I came across today. For example, one candidate&#8217;s name could be translated as &#8220;Sticky Rice&#8221; or &#8220;Uncooked Rice&#8221;, another&#8217;s as &#8220;High Prominent Noble Educated&#8221; or &#8220;Stick Mosquito&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to work out what character were used for these names. Any ideas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chinese versions of candidates&#8217; names\u00a0in some Massachusetts ballots apparently have some unfortunately comical or negative\u00a0meanings, according to an article I came across today. For example, one candidate&#8217;s name could be translated as &#8220;Sticky Rice&#8221; or &#8220;Uncooked Rice&#8221;, another&#8217;s as &#8220;High Prominent Noble Educated&#8221; or &#8220;Stick Mosquito&#8221;. I&#8217;m trying to work out what character were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,10,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese","category-language","category-translation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","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=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}