{"id":34989,"date":"2018-01-12T01:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T06:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=34989"},"modified":"2017-12-23T09:04:28","modified_gmt":"2017-12-23T14:04:28","slug":"qotd-gaelic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/01\/12\/qotd-gaelic\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Gaelic"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Gaelic (or anything Goidelic or Brythonic) is lost, and for a very simple reason. Once one sees it written down, one loses heart. One doubts that anyone could ever have spoken it aloud. Every word of this \u201cmouth music\u201d looks plainly unpronounceable; and proves unpronounceable to those unprepared from birth to speak it, not only from the centre of the mouth, like an Englishman, but from both sides, and every other part of the anatomy. (Compare: desert Arabic.)<\/p>\n<p>David Warren, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.davidwarrenonline.com\/2016\/06\/02\/of-mercy-forgiveness\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Of mercy &amp; forgiveness&#8221;, <em>Essays in Idleness<\/em><\/a>, 2016-06-02.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaelic (or anything Goidelic or Brythonic) is lost, and for a very simple reason. Once one sees it written down, one loses heart. One doubts that anyone could ever have spoken it aloud. Every word of this \u201cmouth music\u201d looks plainly unpronounceable; and proves unpronounceable to those unprepared from birth to speak it, not only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,57,41],"tags":[33,400,338],"class_list":["post-34989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-humour","category-quotations","tag-ireland","tag-language","tag-scotland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-96l","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34989"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34990,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34989\/revisions\/34990"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}